UNESCO, Literacy and Leslie Limage

What happened to literacy? Historical and conceptual perspectives on literacy in UNESCO

For more than six decades, UNESCO has dedicated itself to be the international agency leader in literacy, even though other aspects of educational development have received greater attention and resources by the broader international community. Resources for UNESCO’s literacy work have not increased, and its programmatic activities have been increasingly debated when seen in relationship to the...

Evolvability LESLIE

Living organisms function in accordance with complex mechanisms that operate in different ways depending on conditions. Darwin’s theory of evolution suggests that such mechanisms evolved through variation guided by natural selection. However, there has existed no theory that would explain quantitatively which mechanisms can so evolve in realistic population sizes within realistic time periods, ...

Unesco and the Issue Of

Leslie Matthews

Prg 4.51 Issn 1014-9880 Functional Literacy in Eastern and Western Europe a Uie-unesco/ec/oècd-ceri Seminar

Hamburg REPORT The UNESCO Institute for Education. Hamburg, isa legally independent entity. While the programmes of the Institute are established along the lines laid down by the General Conference of UNESCO, the publications of the Institute are issued under its sole responsibility; UNESCO is not responsible for their contents. The points of view, selection of facts, and opinions expressed are...