International Literacy Day - Process of Shaping our Future Generation

UNESCO declared International Literacy Day on 8 September 1966, in order to remind the international community about the importance of literacy for individuals, communities, and societies and the need for increased efforts towards more educated societies. The topic of literacy is a core component of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Sustainable Development Plan for the United Nations.

The UN's Sustainable Development Agenda, adopted in September 2015 by world leaders facilitate equal access to quality education and learning opportunities across human lives.

According to recent reports, approximately 775 million adults lack the minimum education needed to be literate, of which 60.7 million are out of school or scarce attendants. South Asia has the lowest regional adult literacy rate, at 58.6 percent, according to UNESCO's 'Global Monitoring Study on Education for All' (2006), and the reasons for this vary from extreme poverty to discrimination against women.

The International Literacy Day celebrations have included unique themes every year including Literacy and Health, HIV, Literacy and Empowerment, and Literacy and Peace.

Goals For 2020

The International Literacy Day 2020 focuses on teaching and practicing literacy in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond. Particularly focusing on the role of educators and changing pedagogies. It promotes literacy learning from a lifelong learning perspective, while primarily focusing on young people and adults.

By addressing these issues, the International Literacy Day 2020 offers an opportunity to focus on and explore how creative and effective curriculum and teaching methodologies can be used to solve the pandemic and beyond in youth and adult literacy programs. 

This Day will also provide an opportunity to examine the role of educators and develop effective strategies, structures, governance, and initiatives to support educators and learning.

The UN is organizing online workshops and will talk on these issues for the celebration of International Literacy Day this year.

The meetings will be

  • 'Literacy teaching and learning in and beyond the COVID-19 crisis: the role of educators and evolving pedagogies'
  • 'UNESCO International Literacy Prize 2020 Laureates'.

When Will India receive Universal Literacy?

Meanwhile, in India, a total of 74.04 percent are literate according to the last census in 2011, a rise of 9.2 percent compared with the last decade in 2001-11. It will take another 50 years for the world to achieve universal literacy as per UNESCO, which is in 2060.


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