Community-Based Basic Education (S23)

Presenter: Michael Gibbons

Illiteracy is produced by a lack of access to basic education opportunities, especially during the school-age years. This presentation will discuss how community-based approaches to basic education seek to prevent illiteracy by widening affordable access to relevant quality basic education opportunities in local community settings.

Readings: (Community Development, Section 7)

-Strong Beginnings: An Intergenerational Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Literacy Development (Save the Children Fund)

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