Study On Implementations And Future Trends Of Adults Literacy Campaign In South Africa Since 2000

The elimination of illiteracy and realizing the goal of Education for All is a long-term and important content in international education agenda.In the beginning of 21 century,international community proposed a goal that is achieving a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015.Therefore,the United Nations worked out a United Nations Literacy Decade(2003-2012).Africa is the continent who has the highest illiteracy rate among the world.For individuals,it is impossible for illiterates to enjoy basic rights,get decent job,and attend social life.For a country,many illiterates will disturb the social order,increase country's employment and poverty pressure and finally impede the development of country.In South Africa,eliminating illiterates has been taken as a national strategic level."Let Us Learn" Massive Literacy Campaign is a nationwide adult literacy campaign which implemented by South African government.In 2016,this massive literacy campaign was awarded as the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy.The practice and experience of South African literacy education deserves other African countries to refer.In introduction part,this thesis reviews the research literature here and abroad.It also introduces the research framework and methods.Apart from the introduction part,the body of the thesis consists of four parts.The first part introduces the background of implementing adult literacy campaign since 2000,which includes the international society focus on literacy campaign job and high illiteracy rate in South Africa.The second part introduces the policy and practice case of South African adult literacy campaign.By analyzing the policy-making,organization setup and operation model of"Let Us Learn" to show the implementation process of adult literacy campaign in South Africa since 2000.The third part explains the adult literacy campaigns' effects and shortcomings in South Africa.The effects include the increase of adult literates,promoting educational equity etc.And the adult literacy campaigns also exist some shortcomings,such as lacking of sufficient funds and multi-cooperation with other stakeholders.The last part summarizes the future trends of South African adult literacy campaigns according to the current practical experience of campaigns.In the post 2015 era,the goal of eliminating illiteracy in South Africa is not only to reduce the adult illiteracy,but also to establish the literacy campaign system of multi-subject participation.What's more,by using information and technology,reforming literacy contents and methods and combining literacy education with lifelong learning,adults sustainable learning and development will be promoted.In the last,the conclusion part further summarizes the experience of South African literacy campaign,including massive participation of volunteers,conducting native teaching in eleven official languages and establishing perfect teaching evaluation system,etc.