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Global Perspectives on Adult Education
About this book
This book demonstrates how processes of globalization (economic, cultural, socio-political) are creating new possibilities and inequities and are thereby creating corresponding roles for adult education and learning in the South (Africa, Asia, South America) that are embedded in multiple political, economic and cultural projects for social change.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Global Perspectives on Adult Education: An Introduction
- 2 Globalization and Adult Education in the South
- 3 Cultural Perspectives in African Adult Education: Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Lifelong Learning
- 4 Mwalimuās Mission: Julius Nyerere as (Adult) Educator and Philosopher of Community Development
- 5 Globalization, Dispossession, and Subaltern Social Movement (SSM) Learning in the South
- 6 Paulo Freire and Adult Education
- 7 Freire and Popular Education in Indonesia: Indonesian Society for Social Transformation (INSIST) and the Indonesian Volunteers for Social Transformation (Involvement) Program
- 8 Nonformal Education, Economic Growth and Development: Challenges for Rural Buddhists in Bangladesh
- 9 East Meets West, Dewey Meets Confucius and Mao: A Philosophical Analysis of Adult Education in China
- 10 The Role of Continuing Education in Zimbabwe
- 11 Popular Education and Organized Response to Gold Mining in Ghana
- 12 Popular Education, Hegemony, and Street Children in Brazil: Toward an Ethnographic Praxis
- 13 Citizens Educating Themselves: The Case of Argentina in the PostāEconomic Collapse Era
- 14 A Freirean Analysis of the Process of Conscientization in the Argentinean Madres Movement
- 15 Adult Education and Development in the Caribbean
- Index