To Fight and Learn: The Praxis and Promise of Literacy in Eritrea's Independence War - Softcover
What was the promise of education that drew thousands of rural Eritreans to literacy classes in the midst of drought, famine, and war? This new book examines the remarkable testimony of Eritrea's fighter-teachers, the teenagers who spent years behind enemy lines teaching peasants and nomads to read and write during Eritrea's independence struggle. Using philosophical hermeneutics - the study of human understanding - as an analytical framework, Dr. Gottesman shows how the teachers became students of their students, learning the language and customs of rural people to create a "fusion of horizons."
In this educational process, traditional Eritrean values and the progressive vision of the revolutionary movement found a locus for dialogue, exchange, and for change itself.
In this educational process, traditional Eritrean values and the progressive vision of the revolutionary movement found a locus for dialogue, exchange, and for change itself.
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Les Gottesman is an associate professor of English and Communications at Golden Gate University, San Francisco.
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- PublisherRed Sea Pr
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 156902068X
- ISBN 13 9781569020685
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages280
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To Fight and Learn : The Praxis and Promise of Literacy in Eritrea's Independence War
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ISBN 13: 9781569020685
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