Situations that constrain literacy programs

There are several kinds of situations that impose special constraints on how, or even whether, a literacy program can be carried out.

If your situation happens to be one of these kinds, it will affect in significant ways the shape of your program. In some cases, your situation may make it impossible to select a program type that might otherwise be appropriate.

Here are some situations that may constrain literacy programs:

• Bandwagon situation
• Ideologically Sensitive situation
• Large Program situation
• Limited Access situation
• What is an Officially-mandated Program situation

Example case studies will be provided in future versions of the Literacy bookshelf.

• Fact module: Situations that constrain literacy programs
• In overview module: Literacy programs, by Stephen L. Walter
• In modular book: Plan a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter, Barbara K. Trudell (contributor), and Trudy K. Stewart (general editor)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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