literacy campaigns
Mass reading initiatives
Literacy campaigns are organized efforts to teach reading and writing to populations with low literacy rates.
Governments and organizations launch these initiatives to reach adults who missed formal education: Cuba's 1961 literacy campaign sent students into rural areas, UNESCO supports literacy campaigns in developing nations.
The term sometimes extends to programs promoting specific competencies: digital literacy campaigns, financial literacy campaigns.
- tutoring servicesSupplemental educational assistance
- reading circlesGroups convening over literature
- vocational trainingJob-skill education
- poverty alleviationReducing extreme economic need
- UNESCOCultural arm of UN
education reform · teacher training · primers · learn to read · mobilization · digital libraries · book drives · mobile libraries · public service announcements · grassroots · volunteer programs · educational apps · radio broadcasts · adult education programs · phonics instruction · government policies · gender equality · posters
literacy campaignsbook burning
Incinerating texts as censorship
censorship · propaganda campaigns · disinformation campaigns · anti-intellectualism · obscurantism