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Title: | 'Los! Hau Bele': Yo! Si Puedo comes to Timor-Leste | Contributor(s): | Boughton, Robert G (author) | Publication Date: | 2009 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/5118 | Abstract: | In Timor-Leste, which is one of the world's newest countries and Australia's poorest Asia-Pacific neighbour, Cuba is delivering an educational aid program which aims to eradicate illiteracy, currently affecting nearly 50% of the adult population, within a period of less than ten years. The Timor-Leste national literacy campaign, utilising the Cuban-developed Yo! Si Puedo audiovisual teaching method, opened its first classes in the capital Dili in June 2007. Eighteen months later, by December 2008, nearly 18000 adults had completed a course of sixty-five lessons, led by local village monitors who work under the close supervision of thirty-six Cuban education advisers deployed throughout the country. If it continues at this rate, the literacy campaign can be expected to have a major impact on the stabilisation and development of Timor-Leste, providing a model for other Pacific countries struggling to overcome their educational disadvantage. This paper, based on an ongoing evaluation being undertaken as part of a larger Australian Research Council project on adult education in Timor-Leste, describes the origins and development of the program and the work of the Cuban advisers. It reviews the achievements to date, and compares the Cuban's work with education aid projects sponsored by other donor countries and international agencies. The paper concludes by reviewing the challenges the Cubans still face in assisting Timor-Leste to overcome the problem of illiteracy. | Publication Type: | Conference Publication | Conference Details: | AACS 2009 Conference: 8th Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for Caribbean Studies, Brisbane, Australia, 11th - 13th February, 2009 | Source of Publication: | Presented at the Australian Association for Caribbean Studies Conference | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130101 Continuing and Community Education 130302 Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940302 International Aid and Development 930501 Education and Training Systems Policies and Development |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | E3 Extract of Scholarly Conference Publication | Publisher/associated links: | http://hdl.voced.edu.au/10707/150776 |
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