Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 409)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 409)

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CHAPTER 8: ILLITERACY IN THE WEST BANK WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE
TO THE NORTH JORDAN VALLEY PEASANTRY AND SOME ASPECTS OF
FUNCTIONAL AND FREIRIAN LITERACY STRATEGIES
A phenomenon commonly empirically correlated with poverty and
underdevelopment in most Third World countries is that of
high illiteracy rates, particularly among the poorest and
politically most marginalised sectors of the community.
ITliteracy 18 a very real obstacle to raising peoples
consciousness and understanding of their situation of
underdevelopment and exploitation. This chapter will show
that illiteracy is still a serious social problem in the West
Bank as a whole and particularly so in the Jordan Valley. The
aim of this chapter is, first, to comment critically on the
limitations of utilising existing Israeli statistics in order
to gauge the depth of the illiteracy problem ‘in the West
Bank, second, to present a social profile of illiteracy in
the north Jordan Valley, and, third, to assess the
appropriateness of functional literacy and Freirian type
literacy campaigns for raising the consciousness of the local
Population in such a way that they might form one strand of a
more unified participatory development programme.
A considerable amount of the literature on Palestinians and
their education has understandably focused on the precipitate
impact of the Nakba (the disaster) on the radical change in
educational orientation of the dispossessed Palestinians in
the diaspora and the Occupied Territories. Among this exiled
emigre population, education offered one of the main vehicles
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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production

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Alex Pollock

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