Adult literacy students write their own textbooks. Actionaid's REFLECT programme

Imagine an adult literacy class in which the students write their own 'primer'. The idea is not strange to participants in the Regenerated Freirean Literacy through Empowering Community Techniques (REFLECT) adult literacy programme. David Archer and Sara Cottingham evaluated Actionaid's piloting of the REFLECT technique in Uganda, Bangladesh, and El Salvador. The evaluation found that the REFLECT approach achieved better results, both in teaching literacy and empowering communities, than the conventional literacy programmes used as control groups