[AAACE-NLA] Framing adult literacy arguments and harry potter

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Tanya:

The Dudley Seers article can probably be found somewhere on the web.   I did 
a quick look, didn't get to it.   

I can't remember when Maslow wrote on the needs hierarchy.

However, Seers starts with food and subsistence living. (1972)

For the fulfillment of human potential Seers includes:   "adequate 
educational levels (especially literacy), participation in government, belonging to   a 
nation that is truly independent, both economically and politically..." and so 
on.

Remember, the sixties were a time when there were calls for nationhood in 
Black Africa, and there were links with African-Americans in this country.   
Beside the chaos of the Vietnam War, there was a sense of hope for Africa; Seers 
was writing in that context.

All the features we normally include in our discussions he included in his 
short paper.

Because our national life and the life outside our borders more and more is 
like the latest Harry Potter novel, his work will no doubt seem dated to some, 
as will the UN Declaration of Human Rights.   

Anybody with half a brain knows that nationally and internationally we are in 
crisis, today.

For anybody who is still with me on this post--we need to create the links 
between the nodes that Seers mentions, that Andres believes are essential, that 
any thinking and caring person also believes are essential, so we can apply 
pressure at the correct points.

Andrea
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