The Portuguese Literacy Campaigns After the Carnation Revolution (1974-1977).

Autor/inn/en	Pereira Gomes, Isabel; Amorim, José Pedro; Menezes, Isabel; Correia, José Alberto
Titel	The Portuguese Literacy Campaigns After the Carnation Revolution (1974-1977).
Quelle	In: Journal of social science education, 14 (2015) 2, S. 69-80Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1439-6246; 1618-5293
DOI	10.4119/UNIBI/jsse-v14-i2-1418
Schlagwörter	Qualitatives Interview; Bewusstseinsbildung; Demokratie; Erwachsenenbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Politische Bildung; Portugal; Revolution; Alphabetisierung; Qualitatives Interview; Zeitzeuge; Zeitzeuge; Gesundheitserziehung; Demokratie; Politische Bildung; Revolution; Zivilgesellschaft; Kampagne; Zivilgesellschaft; Erwachsenenbildung; Alphabetisierung; 20. Jahrhundert; Kampagne; 70er Jahre; Freire, Paulo; Portugal
Abstract	This article presents a description of the major campaigns of adult literacy in the revolutionary period in Portugal, between the years 1974 and 1977. The campaigns aimed to address the problem of extremely low levels of formal education and high levels of adult illiteracy, and were organized by different movements, from the military to political youth organizations. In all cases, Paulo Freire's theory and methods were an important reference to these initiatives of popular education even if, in some cases, these were clearly top-down approaches, while others advocated a bottom-up perspective. [The authors] will start by an analysis of the rationale of these movements based on documents produced at the period and a literature review. Then, retrospective interviews with two women participating in these campaigns are used to illustrate these experiences and their perceived impact on themselves and the adults involved. Not surprisingly, the impact of these literacy campaigns is perceived as significant both for the population, particularly older women, but mainly for the young literacy mediators who seem to have experienced this as a life-changing event. Even though this is a preliminary stage of the research, results suggest the significance of gender inequality and poverty as markers in the lived experience of these campaigns, and the high levels of hope and political mobilization of the young people involved, even with various degrees of ideological commitment (Original übernommen).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main (extern)
Update	2015/4