Tag Archives: Adult literacy

Do We Need to Follow Alphabetic Order to Teach Literacy?

November 13, 2014   Adult education, Early childhood education, Education and cultures of Pakistan, Education in Pakistan, Fast track literacy, Girls' education, Khoj methodology, Non formal education, Primary education, School education, Teacher training, Women's education   8 Comments

Recently a comment was made about Khoj methodology that it didn’t follow the alphabetic order in teaching literacy and it was a problem that needed to be rectified. This statement prompted me to raise the following questions:

  • Is there a logic in following the alphabetic order to teach literacy?
  • Does this order yield sequential milestones in learning? Is a child able to write certain words and sentences after learning a given number of letters in the alphabetic order? For instance, can they make any given number of words after learning from ا to ث ہ or from ج to خ?
  • Is learning is at a faster pace if the letters of alphabet are first abstractly learnt?

The answer to all the above questions is an emphatic no.

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Teachers Need Support

November 15, 2012   Adult education, Non formal education, Policy issues, Teacher training, Women's education   1 Comment

The purpose of adult and non-formal basic education is to provide an opportunity to those who
were left out or dropped out of school for some reason. There are a host of reasons why they
lagged behind in the mainstream of education and development. Generally speaking, they come
from the resource poor families who have no faith in the meaning and fruitfulness of long years of
schooling.

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Khoj Methodology – A Sure Way to Education for All in Pakistan 1

November 3, 2012   Adult education, Fast track literacy, Khoj methodology, Policy issues, Primary education, Teacher training, Women's education   6 Comments

The number of out of school children in Pakistan exceeds the total population of the countries like Norway, Ireland and New Zealand. According to the 2012 Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report, the country is home to around 5.1 million such children, which makes it the abode of the second largest number of out of school children in the world. Unfortunately, the story of the dismal performance doesn’t end here. Pakistan is also home to more than 50 million illiterate adults which is the third highest number in the world. And almost half of the rural women have never been to school.

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