Conceptual framework for designing literacy materials for indigenous audiences

Such an approach, according to this report, developed out of experience in India, implies a liberating view of development, with stress on local self-reliance, people"s power, participatory research, and mutual cooperation, in contradistinction to the emphasis in the traditional, domesticating view of development on assimilation to the norms and values of the dominant group. This message can be communicated in a way that will be truly fruitful by adopting a narrative-dialogical-participatory approach which draws on the vitality and concreteness of indigenous languages rather than the scientific-rational educational model traditional in the West. A series of questions to determine the appropriateness of adult education materials in light of the above theses concludes the report.