Volume 23, Number 3 (July 1997)

Originally published as:   Notes on Literacy. Volume 23, Number 3 (July 1997). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. © 1997 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.

Complete Table of Contents

A serious attempt to set up a community-owned literacy project, by Karsten van Riezen, Irene van Riezen, Robert Hunt, and Margaret Hunt

Introduction

Background

Step 1: Getting to know the community

Step 2: Mobilizing the people

Step 3: Setting up a structure

Step 4: Starting a pilot project

Step 5: Organizing and training the board

Step 6: Training the staff

Step 7: Becoming financially independent

Step 8: Expanding the project

Step 9: Handing over the responsibilities

Evaluation

Back Matter

Appendix

1. Contract example

2. Matigsalug literacy project area approach plan

Education and development: Is the relationship always positive?, by Anne Klaassens

Creation of citizens, national identity, and unity

Political participation

Promotion of societal values

Economic sphere

Social structure

Summary

Back Matter

References

The REFLECT approach used in an SIL setting, by Linda Seyer

1. Introduction

2. The REFLECT method

2.1. Background and description of the approach

2.2. Training and selection of group facilitators

2.3. The three pilot projects

2.4.The REFLECT mother manual

3. Advantages of the approach

4. Weakness of the approach

5. Using REFLECT in an SIL context

6. Summary

Back Matter

References

SIL as a literacy NGO, by Nelis van den Berg

1. Introduction

2. Definitions

3. Characteristics of NGOs

3.1. Funding

3.2. Relationships with governments

3.3. Self perceptions

3.4. Trends in project setup by NGOs

4. NGOs in literacy

5. How similar to other NGOs is SIL?

5.1. Funding

5.2. Relationships

5.3. Project setup

6. Conclusion

Back Matter

References

Report on the 42nd Annual Convention of the International Reading Association: May 4–9, 1997, by Joan Bomberger

Review: Literacy and script reform in occupation Japan, by Ingrid Toba