Life-Skill Literacy Education Towards Rural Industrial Development

DOI

10.2991/nfe-16.2017.4How to use a DOI?

Keywords

rural area industry, illiteracy, life-skill education

Abstract

Rural area is identified by the agricultural and farming commodity and close-tied kinship of the community. Nevertheless, the education level is low. More women in the rural areas, however, suffer from illiteracy compared those living the cities. This is the case due to the insufficient education facility and the remote geographical location. Despite the fact, countryside women have a handful of skills that support the industry development in agricultural or farming of which results are distributed to the cities. This study utilized the vocational training approach to teach literacy to the countryside women to enable them to read and write as well as reinforcing learning motivation. This research was conducted in Pagerwangi Countryside in Lembang, West Java Province. Aiming to reveal a skill as approach in literacy learning towards rural industrial. This study used a qualitative approach, the case study method. Based on the results of the study, that the completion of illiteracy through skills can increase the motivation of adult learning and preparing for independent/ autonomy community towards rural industries.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Achmad Hufad
AU  - Jajat S. Ardiwinata
AU  - Puromo Puromo
PY  - 2017/01
DA  - 2017/01
TI  - Life-Skill Literacy Education Towards Rural Industrial Development
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd NFE Conference on Lifelong Learning (NFE 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 14
EP  - 16
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/nfe-16.2017.4
DO  - 10.2991/nfe-16.2017.4
ID  - Hufad2017/01
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