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Authors: Dr Sunita Gandhi, Tom Delaney, Jonathan Hakim, Mashood Alam Bhat
Foundational literacy and numeracy are crucial to every person’s wellbeing. A nation’s literacy rate is a key predictor of its social and economic progress.
Yet the world still has hundreds of millions of children in school but not learning the basics, and adults deprived of these foundational skills. Why?
Disruptive Literacy tackles these hard questions, showing that, despite the huge setback of COVID-19, the world can attain universal literacy rapidly.
Drawing from remarkable examples of movements around the world, and sprinkled with stories from the authors’ grassroots educational work in the Accelerating Learning for All (ALfA) program, Disruptive Literacy is an easy-to-read but hard-to-ignore manifesto that will touch your heart and inspire you to action.
Authors: Dr Sunita Gandhi, Tom Delaney, Jonathan Hakim, Mashood Alam Bhat
Every parent wants the best education for their child. But is there more to education than rows of children listening to a teacher and copying into their notebooks?
ALfA: Accelerating Learning for All breaks the shackles of the industrial education system, revolutionizing the school experience through peer learning and hands-on activities. The ALfA program enables children and adults alike to learn foundational literacy and numeracy in months rather than years. Beyond reading, writing and arithmetic, ALfA builds the crucial life skills of collaboration, creativity, citizenship and character. Both a classroom guide for teachers and an implementation roadmap for policymakers, this book explores a transformative approach to teaching and learning. Sprinkled with anecdotes from teachers, principals & students, Accelerating Learning for All inspires and equips us to build a better education system.
The ALfA toolkits enable children and adults alike to learn to read, write and do basic arithmetic in as little as 30 instructional hours. Explore our literacy and numeracy materials below, available in 30 languages. Reach out to us to today to order hard copies of this wonderful learning resource, to use in your classroom or adult literacy program.
Our vision is a world in which every child has high quality learning resources freely available. If the ALfA program isn't yet available in your language, can you help replicate it in your mother-tongue? The process takes only 1-2 months, and DEVI Sansthan is available to help every step of the way.
Arabic
Bangla
Dhivehi
Dutch
English
Filipino
French
Mandarin
Nepali
Persian
Portuguese*
Serbian
Shona
Spanish
Swahili
Twi
Urdu
Yoruba
Somali*
Norwegian
* in development
Assamese
Bengali
Gujarati
Hindi
Kannada
Konkani*
Maithili
Marathi
Mizo
Odia
Punjabi
Tamil
Telugu
* in process
The ALfA Way App is a comprehensive resource tool that offers a diverse collection of global digital books in various languages. It provides login IDs for students, teachers, and surveyors, making it accessible to a broad audience.
In the wake of the Covid pandemic, we realized that in the future, much of education will be digital. To this end, we’ve developed the Literacy Now App, which contains an easy-to-use repository of videos and interactive games, to teach foundational literacy and numeracy in an enjoyable and effective manner.
The app enables partner organizations like governments, schools and NGOs to use large-scale data for decision-making. DEVI Sansthan recently signed an MOU with the Department of Secondary Education, Uttar Pradesh, in which students will use the Literacy Now App to teach their illiterate neighbours, relatives and community members.
Got the App but need some help getting started? Let us step you through it:
DEVI Sansthan is grateful for a grant from State Bank of India Foundation, which enabled us to develop the app and its interactive content.
Literacy Now app is an excellent tool for the students as well as their learners. The teacher’s dashboard is wonderful to monitor the progress of the students and also helped me in guiding and motivating my students for the right line of action like taking Pre-test, teaching their learners etc.”
The Literacy Now app was very helpful when I took my learner's pre test. I liked the format of the questions. The explanation of the topics is excellent. I loved the app.
The Literacy Now app is user-friendly. The innovative and interactive way of teaching is helpful for the learner to understand and explanatory. I am enjoying teaching with the hybrid teaching method [using both app and ALfA books].
The Literacy Now app aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education) by providing accessible and engaging literacy resources to empower learners worldwide. The app enables learners to unlock their potential and contribute to a more equitable and educated world, in line with SDG 4's vision of inclusive and quality education for all.
Interested to see what impact the App has made in the lives of some disadvantaged students?
The Pragati TARGETPlus App instantly captures data and delivers reports and results from tests or surveys with the press of a button. Reports are provided on the spot and are designed to enable immediate corrective actions by various stakeholders. This prompt feedback and corrective action are aimed at enhancing student performance, which the Pragati app effectively supports. Its versatile and useful features contribute to its effectiveness. Installing the Pragati App on Android and iOS devices is straightforward through the Play Store or App Store.
Register an individual group, family or an organisation to volunteer for literacy
Complete Courses on Literacy and Numeracy with your learners starting with Name Literacy
Conduct Survey in communities around you and identify potential learners and volunteers
Monitor the progress of your learner(s) using real-time tracking dashboard
Add Learners and update their details, GPS Location, ID, Pre-test scores and other details
Conduct 3rd Party Evaluactions of your learner(s) and receive badges and certificate
Create Batches of your learners and teach them using the App
Tag other volunteers to teacher learner (s) and make them literate and numerate
