Neighborhood survey for better adult education

Title

Creator

Santos, Tomas L.

Identifier

Community assistance

Language

English

Source

The Cabletow Volume XLII (No. 1) January 1966

Year

1966

Rights

In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Fulltext

Community Assistance — Neighborhood <Su,rueg lor Metter cAdudt Education By WB TOMAS L. SANTOS, PM More than three years ago, the Marikina Lodge No. 119, F. & A.M. started planning out, how the said Lodge may contribute on any felt pub lic service it could render to the com munity. A Committee on Public Serv ice and Education then was created by the Lodge for the purpose. After some consultations with the members of the Committee by the Chairman and with the all-out sup port of the Lodge, a simple program on Adult and Community Education with stress on Functional Literacy was approved to be launched. Parang, Marikina, Rizal was select ed as a starting barrio for the project and with the intention to involve all other barrios in the town where the said project was leltly needed. At present, some achievements as found in the 1964 Annual Report of the Adult and Community Education Coordinating Council (ACECC) * were enumerated as published. * ACECC was organized by the Lodge. One very significant discovery in the said project was resorted to by a barrio councilman in charge of a section in Parang. In his effort to enroll more from his zone in func tional literacy class under the process of organization then, he introduced what he called “confidential neigh borhood survey”. After such survey was completed a few selected “strong men” in the district under the leader ship of the barrio councilman, con centrated their campaign for enroll ment to those illiterates revealed in the survey. Confidential neighborhood survey when generalized helped a great deal Parang in achieving the following results: a. Five classes in functional lit eracy were organized and gradu ated, one after the other, in the barrio; and b. Shyness on the part of the adults to attend classes was over come. In this functional literacy project to date, 1965, the following barrios are also involved besides Parang: a. In Sto. Nino a class was gra duated; b. Nangka, another barrio, a class also completed the course; and c. In Concepcion, formerly Bayanbayanan, and in San Roque, two classes were organized and graduated in functional literacy. In this project the organization of local efforts or “Bayanihan” scheme was employed. Some local school personnel commented that the prog ress after three years was quite slow. It could had been faster had the prop er educational machinery functioned accordingly. A January, 1966 25

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