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Literacy, Power, and Democracy in Mozambique

The Governance of Learning from Colonization to the Present
By:Judith Marshall
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Print ISBN:9780367016081
eText ISBN:9780429714832
Edition:1
Copyright:1993
Format:Reflowable

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This book explores the relations between literacy and "people's power" in the context of Mozambique's project of socialist construction. It probes the tensions between literacy as a tool for grassroots democracy versus literacy as a tool for mobilizing at the base for top-down initiatives.