ADVENTURES OF LITERACY WORKERS中英文对照.pdf

1 ADVENTURES OF LITERACY WORKERS 2 John Daniel For most people the word education” means school” and school” conjures up an image of a building with classrooms. But what do people think of when they hear literacy programs”? Probably nothing. Living in illiteracy is such an unknown — even a little mysterious — experience.3 Yet today nearly a billion people are illiterate, not to mention4 the 113 million school-aged children who do not attend school. Wonderful progress has been made during the last half of the twentieth century in the field of education. But still the number of adult illiterates, particularly women, rises. This is now the challenge of the twenty-first century — the thorn in the side of 5 efforts to achieve Education for All (EFA).It has become clear that Education for All cannot be possible without Literacy for All. However, tremendous strides have been made in literacy. How has this been possible? Who brought it about? The people behind literacy efforts must be congratulated for working against all odds to bring about this achievement.6 But where are they? Who are they? What are their tasks like? And their problems, challenges and rewards? What inspires them? What conditions do they work and live under? 7 8 In this book they will tell their own stories , in their own words; their trials and tribulations in their efforts to contribute towards reaching the global goal of Litera