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dc.contributor.authorTuladhar, Sumon Kamal
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-25T19:22:37Z
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dc.date.created2019-08-14 23:35
dc.date.issued1994-01-01
dc.identifieroai:scholarworks.umass.edu:dissertations-6798
dc.identifierhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9510546
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/444576
dc.description.abstractRecognizing literacy as a key to community development, government, non-government and international organizations in Nepal are offering literacy classes as a strategy for community development. Consequently, a great number of neo-literates are emerging every day. However, rural areas of Nepal are not meeting the challenge of neo-literates, as there is still a lack of literate environment. Therefore, literacy professionals in government or non-government organizations are pondering the question of "After literacy what?" and how to sustain people's enthusiasm and skills of literacy so that their energy and skill can be channeled in community development. Video technology has pervaded even the rural areas of developing countries like Nepal. However, community members are still media consumers rather than producers. Media technology, like video, can be an effective tool for consciousness raising when used in a participatory approach and developed locally, involving community people. Therefore, the present study is to develop a model for participatory community video as a post-literacy activity in Nepal. Four major steps have been taken in the study. First, a literature review is done to explore what other developing countries are doing for post-literacy and how much media technology has been integrated in literacy as well as in rural community development. Second, interviews were done with seven Nepal experts to explore their opinions on using video in rural Nepal as a tool for consciousness raising. Third, based on these interviews a model for participatory community video was developed. Fourth, this model was field tested in one of the rural communities in Nepal. The field test showed that use of video is an effective tool for adults to raise consciousness and develop leadership quality in neo-literates. This study is significant for Nepal because it brings into sharp focus the existence of multiculturalism in the country and efforts to develop indigenous knowledge without local cultural values being wiped out. It provides ambitious neo-literates the opportunity to be creative and to work for their own community rather than migrating to urban areas. Communities will produce their own leaders to cope with globalization through media.
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
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dc.subjectAdult education|Continuing education
dc.titleDevelopment of a participatory community video model as a post-literacy activity in Nepal
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