Literacy and Emancipation -
Conditions of the Literacy Process in Two Cultural-Revolutionary
Movements
(16th Century Germany and 20th Century Benin)
(Gemeinsam mit G. Elwert)
Erschienen in: The Journal of Social Studies - Special Issue on Rereading History - (Dhaka,
Bangladesh), No. 62, Oct. 1993, S. 14-39
Inhalt
1. Introduction
2. Two cases of non-schooled adult literacy
3. Conditions of the literacy movements in 16
th
-century Germany and 20
th
-century Benin
4. Goals for literacy
5. The educational methods
6. The dissolution of the literacy movements
7. Particularities of the "direct method"
8. Differences between the literacy movement in 15th- and 16th century Germany and in the
present day Benin; conclusions
9. Notes
Michael Giesecke