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Global Perspectives on Adult Education

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Ali A. Abdi

    1. Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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  2. Dip Kapoor

    1. Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  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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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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"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

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Ali A. Abdi, Dip Kapoor

About the editors

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

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