The Importance of Literacy Education for Youth and Adults

Summary:

 This article is about literacy of adults as a big issue and the importance of literacy for the Education of Youth and Adults as well as the social function of literacy. The article aims to assist in construction of ideas about the term literacy and reflection of it on social issues involving the citizen facing with common literacy and education problems a society.

Importance of Adult Education:

The process of teaching and learning of young adults aims to meet the principle of adequacy of technical methods and educational resources for the betterment of the cultural and subjective realities of that society. 

 From this, we know that knowledge is acquired through social interaction, and is made from the individual's relationship with the social environment, considering the experiences of life and other factors such as

·        Cultural values

·        Religious beliefs

All that for a culture considering that a significant learning to take yourself from a process that provides a critical analysis of the social practice of men, contributing to rethink the way they act in the world." If the social aspect of learning concerns the values and collective aspirations with an act of creation and recreation, and is therefore impossible to speak in neutral education. Likewise, the dialogue appears as a foundation for constructing the subject as a mechanism for understanding the social structure, awareness and transformation of a topic. results from the interaction between the structures of thought and social context, Learning  occur in a way that would be necessary to face challenging situations that provide the student arrive at more elaborate levels of knowledge, requiring the intervention of other subjects. And in such a process of construction where action of the subject on the object to be known and friendly." 

           In a society permeated by practices of reading and writing, social gatherings, not only in an institutional setting, note that the teacher's role increasingly transcends the four walls which define the classrooms, and pedagogical practices interfere directly in the development of the students in building some thing more incredible then just a society, where morals values are practiced.

Conclusion:

The traditional pedagogical practices disconnected from reality do not meet the actual need of the individual who needs interfere with their social reality. In our daily life is easy to see people not literate in use of reading and writing. Even without mastering these technologies, they recognize the importance and necessity of their uses, because they do not want to suffer from exclusion and that in this sense, conquer social dignity that individuals literate in the conventional standards are not misusing them.