Establishing a National Adult Learning Platform on the Agenda of the Literacy Movement

Shiraz – The Deputy for Education of the National Literacy Movement Organization stressed the need for transformation in the organization's missions, saying: The Literacy Movement must evolve from remedial education into a national adult learning platform.

Shiraz- The vice president of education of the Literacy Movement Organization of the country, emphasizing the necessity of transformation in the missions of this organization, said: The Literacy Movement must be transformed from compensatory training into a national platform for adult learning.

According to the report of Ambassador Arjan Mohammadreza Mohammadzadeh, on Thursday morning, in the meeting of the General Department of Education, Fars, referring to the need to review the structure and missions of the Literacy Movement Organization, he said: The concept of literacy in today's world goes beyond the ability to read and write and includes basic, digital, practical skills and the ability to solve everyday problems. Therefore, the traditional approaches to literacy should be redefined according to the new needs of the society.

Emphasizing the necessity of transformation in the functioning of local learning centers, the vice-president of education of the country's literacy movement added: These centers should not be limited to holding educational classes, but should become bases for identifying learning needs, educational guidance, providing support services and empowering learners.

Mohammadzadeh continued: In this direction, the role of trainers should also change from mere training to professional facilitation and accompanying people in the continuous learning process in order to provide the audience with more effective benefit from educational opportunities.

Emphasizing the necessity of providing learning opportunities according to people's needs, he stated: Empowering adults should go beyond basic education and provide them access to skills needed in personal, family, social and professional life.

The vice-president of education of the National Literacy Movement Organization noted: This approach can provide the basis for increasing the effective participation of people in the society and economy and make the role of education more prominent in promoting individual and social capabilities.

National adult learning platform in the path of literacy evolution

Mohammadzadeh considered the National Adult Learning Platform as one of the strategic axes of transformation in the Literacy Movement Organization and said: This platform should provide easy and comprehensive access to learning opportunities by creating a digital and integrated infrastructure and develop communication between learners, facilitators, local learning centers and educational services.

He stated that the educational content should be practical, appropriate to the real needs of the audience and accessible, adding: using the capacity of virtual space, digital tools and new educational methods can increase the flexibility of the learning process and provide the possibility of benefiting different groups of society from continuous education.

This official said that the realization of this goal requires redefining missions, determining content standards and educational services, reviewing the role of local learning centers and establishing coherent mechanisms to guide, support and evaluate the learning process.

Changing the approach from compensatory education to community empowerment

Explaining the future vision of the country's Literacy Movement Organization, the vice president of education noted: The goal is to move from a purely compensatory institution and move towards a national platform for learning and empowering adults. A platform that provides continuous learning opportunities to people and provides the basis for the formation of a capable, learning society with the skills needed in today's life.

In the end, Mohammadzadeh listed the coordination between policy making, executive structure, human resource empowerment, development of digital infrastructure and continuous evaluation of the results as the requirements for the success of this transformation and emphasized: The Literacy Movement Organization should change from a provider of compensatory education to a facilitator of continuous learning and community empowerment by redefining its role.