Adult education and poverty reduction
Subtitle: issues for policy, research, and practice
By: edited by, Julia Preece, Ruud Van Der Veen, Wapula Nelly Raditloaneng
Publisher: Lightbooks
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Gaborone, Botswana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9789991271361
Notes: Outgrowth of a conference sponsored by the World Bank and the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association, and held in Gaborone in June 2004.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Poverty and adult education : an analytic framework  -- Julia Preece; title: Challenging change : theory, policy, and practice in adult literacies learning  -- Kathy Maclachlan; title: Adult education and poverty reduction : HIV/AIDS and public policy in Lesotho  -- Nick Waterman; title: Poverty reduction and expectations from adult education in Serbia  -- Snezana Medić; title: Adult education : the missing link in Nigeria's poverty alleviation programme  -- Ayo Garuba; title: Adult learning and poverty reduction in Namibia  -- Justin Ellis; title: Young adults at risk : problems and challenges for adult education and training  -- Mamphago Modiba and Jacques Zeelen; title: Using participatory research and community education to define and assess poverty  -- Patricia Ellis; title: Efficacy of education in the advancement of agricultural projects for food security and poverty reduction in Kenya  -- Mary Khakoni Walingo; title: Women's education, empowerment and micro credit : making the connections  -- Soma Kishore Parthasarathy, Jaya Sharma, and Archana Dwivedi; title: Factoring in social capital as a poverty reduction strategy  -- Gabriela Enríquez Ortiz; title: Revival of Laedza Batanani as a strategy for poverty reduction in rural Botswana -- Patrick J. Ebewo.