Literacy in and out of school in a Brazilian bairro: implications for policy.

This covers Ethnographic field work in two periods in a span of twenty year period, Covering the reach of teachers over time and across different institutional settings

Alternative and implement policies that stress literacy and autonomous model cf PISA; PIAAC; GMR and social practices.

http://www.balid.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/BALID-ILD-15-Literacy-in-and-out-of-school-in-a-Brazilian-bairro-Castanheira-and-Street-24-Feb-2014.pdf

I am writing a recent review article that describe the neuroscience changes promoted by literacy. For this topic you can read:

http://psy2.fau.edu/~rosselli/NeuroLab/pdfs/neuropsychology_of_cognition_without_reading.pdf

Unesco describes some challenges:

http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/pdf/Brazil.pdf

Ostrosky-Sólis developed NEUROALPHA program and Boltzman the NEUROPLUS:

http://www.meditech.de/fileadmin/forschung/Ruesseler_Learning_to_read_in_adulthood_POE21.pdf

Please read Paulo Freire"s Pedogogy of the Oppresed (2006), Teaching for a Critical Consciousness (2009), Freire and Macado Literacy; Reading the Word and the World (around 1980's).  His work focuses on literary practices in Brazil.

Dear Vi Rah

here are informative publications:

http://www.unesco.org/uil/litbase/?menu=4&programme=50

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0016/001626/162640e.pdf

good luck with your research

a.