Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 429)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 429)

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the economic situation of students over and above’ the
acquisition of basic literacy skilis. Functional literacy
projects have been carried out with varying degrees of
success in Africa where there have been functional literacy
type projects undertaken in Algeria, Botswana, Tanzania and
zambia.
If we outline the Zambian functional literacy project as an
example of what functional literacy aims to achieve and how
it was organised then this might give us a more concrete
understanding of how functional literacy efforts operate.
(17) The Zambian project was developed for literacy education
among rural farmers, both men and women. Women's integration
into the agricultural labour process is much more central in
Africa, where it is estimated that women produce about 90% of
domestically produced food in the subsistence economy, than
it is in most Third World countries. The actual programme was
divided into two stages. During the first phase, from March
until October, farmers were given a practical training in
methods to improve the production of maize. This first phase
consisted of three curricular components. The first component
was classes in which the student-farmers studied basic
literacy texts and primers which incorporated information on
maize production as a core component in the content of the
curriculum. This was also supplemented with posters, flip-
charts, radio programmes and group discussions to highlight
these new methods. The second component consisted of a
demonstration plot of land on which students observed and
practiced the new production methods. The third component
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Alex Pollock

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