Global perspectives on adult education
Subtitle: African, Asian and Latin American perspectives
By: edited by Ali A. Abdi and Dip Kapoor.
Contributors: Abdi, Ali A., 1955-; Kapoor, Dip.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: NY, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Adult education; Education and globalization; Adult education -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "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 the context-specific grounding of these theoretical and conceptual discussions, while addressing higher education, community, movement, and NGO/civil society spaces of engagement."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Global perspectives on adult education: an introduction / Ali A. Abdi & Dip Kapoor; title: Globalization and adult education in the South / Edward Shizha & Ali A. Abdi; title: Cultural perspectives in African adult education: indigenous ways of knowing in lifelong learning / Ladislaus Semali; title: Mwalimu's mission: Julius Nyerere (adult) educator and philosopher of community development / Christine Mhina & Ali A. Abdi; title: Globalization, dispossession and subaltern social movement (SSM) learning in the South / Dip Kapoor; title: Paulo Freire and adult education / Peter Mayo; title: Freire and popular education in Indonesia: INSIST and the Indonesian volunteers for social transformation (involvement) program / Muhammad Agus Nuryatno; title: Nonformal education, economic growth and development: challenges for rural Buddhists in Bangladesh / Bijoy Barua; title: East meets West, Dewey meets Confucious and Mao: a philosophical analysis of adult education in China / Shibao Guo; title: The role of continuing education in Zimbabwe / Michael Kariwo; title: Popular education and organized response to gold mining in Ghana / Valerie Kwaipun; title: Popular education, hegemony and street children in Brazil: towards an ethnographic praxis / Samuel Veissiere & Marcelo Diversi; title: Citizens educating themselves: the case of Argentina in the post-economic collapse era / Luis D'Elia; title: Freirian analysis of the process of conscientization in the Argentinian madres movement / Charlotte Baltodano; title: Adult education and development in the Caribbean / Jean Walrond.