This collection brings together adult education theorists and practitioners from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean (and diaspora from these regions) in an attempt to foreground issues, concepts, theories and practices of adult education in Southern locations. Key contributions include contemporary theoretical implications of the works of Nyerere, Freire, Confucious, Mao, Buddhism and African indigenous conceptions along with current discussion pertaining to globalization, citizenship and adult education and learning in subaltern social movements. Case studies from all regions address context-specific grounding of these theoretical and conceptual discussions, while addressingi higher education, community, movement and NGO/civil society spaces of engagement.
Author(s): Ali A. Abdi, Dip Kapoor
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 282
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Notes on Contributors......Page 16
1 Global Perspectives on Adult Education: An Introduction......Page 20
2 Globalization and Adult Education in the South......Page 36
3 Cultural Perspectives in African Adult Education: Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Lifelong Learning......Page 54
4 Mwalimu’s Mission: Julius Nyerere as (Adult) Educator and Philosopher of Community Development......Page 72
5 Globalization, Dispossession, and Subaltern Social Movement (SSM) Learning in the South......Page 90
6 Paulo Freire and Adult Education......Page 112
7 Freire and Popular Education in Indonesia: Indonesian Society for Social Transformation (INSIST) and the Indonesian Volunteers for Social Transformation (Involvement) Program......Page 126
8 Nonformal Education, Economic Growth and Development: Challenges for Rural Buddhists in Bangladesh......Page 144
9 East Meets West, Dewey Meets Confucius and Mao: A Philosophical Analysis of Adult Education in China......Page 160
10 The Role of Continuing Education in Zimbabwe......Page 178
11 Popular Education and Organized Response to Gold Mining in Ghana......Page 194
12 Popular Education, Hegemony, and Street Children in Brazil: Toward an Ethnographic Praxis......Page 212
13 Citizens Educating Themselves: The Case of Argentina in the Post–Economic Collapse Era......Page 226
14 A Freirean Analysis of the Process of Conscientization in the Argentinean Madres Movement......Page 240
15 Adult Education and Development in the Caribbean......Page 258
B......Page 276
E......Page 277
H......Page 278
L......Page 279
P......Page 280
T......Page 281
Z......Page 282
