Global Perspectives on Adult Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Global Perspectives on Adult Education: An Introduction

   • Ali A. Abdi, Dip Kapoor

   Pages 1-16

3. Globalization and Adult Education in the South

   • Edward Shizha, Ali A. Abdi

   Pages 17-34

4. Cultural Perspectives in African Adult Education: Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Lifelong Learning

   • Ladislaus Semali

   Pages 35-51

5. Mwalimu’s Mission: Julius Nyerere as (Adult) Educator and Philosopher of Community Development

   • Christine Mhina, Ali A. Abdi

   Pages 53-69

6. Globalization, Dispossession, and Subaltern Social Movement (SSM) Learning in the South

   • Dip Kapoor

   Pages 71-92

7. Paulo Freire and Adult Education

   • Peter Mayo

   Pages 93-105

8. Freire and Popular Education in Indonesia: Indonesian Society for Social Transformation (INSIST) and the Indonesian Volunteers for Social Transformation (Involvement) Program

   • Muhammad Agus Nuryatno

   Pages 107-124

9. Nonformal Education, Economic Growth and Development: Challenges for Rural Buddhists in Bangladesh

   • Bijoy P. Barua

   Pages 125-140

10. East Meets West, Dewey Meets Confucius and Mao: A Philosophical Analysis of Adult Education in China

    • Shibao Guo

    Pages 141-158

11. The Role of Continuing Education in Zimbabwe

    • Michael Kariwo

    Pages 159-173

12. Popular Education and Organized Response to Gold Mining in Ghana

    • Valerie Kwaipun

    Pages 175-191

13. Popular Education, Hegemony, and Street Children in Brazil: Toward an Ethnographic Praxis

    • Samuel Veissière, Marcelo Diversi

    Pages 193-206

14. Citizens Educating Themselves: The Case of Argentina in the Post-Economic Collapse Era

    • Luis Alberto D’Elia

    Pages 207-220

15. A Freirean Analysis of the Process of Conscientization in the Argentinean Madres Movement

    • Charlotte Baltodano

    Pages 221-237

16. Adult Education and Development in the Caribbean

    • Jean Walrond

    Pages 239-255

17. Back Matter

    Pages 257-263

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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.

• adult education
• Community Development
• education
• globalization
• learning
• research

"Abdi and Kapoor's new collection represents a milestone in adult education. It contains a critical re-thinking of the field by an outstanding array of scholars, mostly from the global South.Conceptual chapters and case studies from around the world offer rich insights and analyses that make it indispensable reading for adult educators and those from allied fields like comparative and international education and human resource development." - Steven J. Klees, Professor, University of Maryland; Past President, Comparative and International Education Society

"This collection combines a strong theoretical framework with specific case studies that are country/region based within the global south. Abdi and Kapoor have a novel approach that emphasizes themes such as adult/popular education, indigenous knowledges, development, and social justice from scholar-activists who have developed theories/methodologies/pedagogies that are inherently southern in their perspective. These essays act as a nexus for theory and practice in the study of adult education. An original contribution to the field." - Steven Jordan, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University

• Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

  Ali A. Abdi, Dip Kapoor

Dip Kapoor is an associate professor, International Education, in Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta

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