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Literacy is usually considered the ability to read at a basic level. Now it is beginning to be defined more broadly to include applying reading, writing, and mathematical skills to obtain and use information and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function in society, to achieve one's goals and develop one's knowledge and potential. "Family Literacy" is an intergeneration approach to literacy activities. (...) Through the Technikon Northern Gauteng Research Capacity Building project, the author initiated the Soshanguve Family Literacy programme in the surrounding community of Soshanguve. The Soshanguve Family Literacy Programme provides the following activities: Adult Education, Childhood Education or Program Your Child for Success, Parent Education, Interactive Parent/Child Activities (PACT TIME). (Afr Dev/DÜI)

"The twenty essays brought together in this volume explore a wide range of perspectives relating to the materiality and textuality of medieval scripts and documents. The textuality and materiality of documents are an essential part of their communicative role. Medieval writing, as part of the interpersonal communication process, had to follow rules to ensure the legibility and understanding of a text and its connotations. This volume provides new insights into how different kinds of rules were designed, established, and followed in the shaping of medieval documents, as a means of enabling complex and subtle communicational phenomena. Because they provide a perspective for approaching the material they are supposed to organize, these rules (or the postulation of their use) provide powerful analytical tools for structural studies into given corpora of documents. Originating in talks given at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds between 2010 and 2012, the twenty papers in this collection offer a precise, in-depth analysis of a variety of medieval scripts, including books, charters, accounts, and epigraphic documents. In doing so, they integrate current developments in palaeography, diplomatics, and codicology in their traditional methodological set, as well as aspects of the digital humanities, and they bridge the gap between the so-called 'auxiliary sciences of history' and the field of communication studies. They illustrate different possibilities for exploring how the formal aspects of scripts took their place in the construction of effective communication structures."--

Die Proklamation des Jahres 1990 als internationales Jahr der Alphabetisierung nimmt der Autor zum Anlaß, um nach der Lage und den Perspektiven der Alphabetisierung in Afrika zu fragen. Seit 1980 ist eine rückläufige Tendenz beim Schulbesuch zu verzeichnen, die funktionale Alphabetisierung der Erwachsenen gestaltet sich kompliziert, da die Frage der für die Alphabetisierung zu benutzenden Sprache große Schwierigkeiten bereitet und die zur Verfügung stehenden Mittel gering sind. Die gegenwärtigen Ausrichtungen in der Erwachsenenbildung erfolgen durch die NGO. (DÜI-Ott)

Literacy, popularity of reading, and relationships between reading and other aspects of culture; France, chiefly; 14 articles. Includes features on Africa and Germany.