Global perspectives on adult education / edited by Ali A. Abdi and Dip Kapoor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abdi, Ali A., 1955-

Kapoor, Dip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adult education.

Education and globalization.

Adult education--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Global perspectives on adult education : an introduction / Ali A. Abdi and Dip Kapoor

Globalization and adult education in the South / Edward Shizha and Ali A. Abdi

Cultural perspectives in African adult education : indigenous ways of knowing in lifelong learning / Ladislaus Semali

Mwalimu's mission : Julius Nyerere as (adult) educator and philosopher of community development / Christine Mhina and Ali A. Abdi

Globalization, dispossession, and subaltern social movement (SSM) learning in the South / Dip Kapoor

Paulo Freire and adult education / Peter Mayo

Freire and popular education in Indonesia : Indonesian Society for Social Transformation (INSIST) and the Indonesian volunteers for social transformation (involvement) program / Muhammad Agus Nuryatno

Nonformal education, economic growth and development : challenges for rural Buddhists in Bangladesh / Bijoy P. Barua

East meets West, Dewey meets Confucius and Mao : a philosophical analysis of adult education in China / Shibao Guo

The role of continuing education in Zimbabwe / Michael Tonderai Kariwo

Popular education and organized response to gold mining in Ghana / Valerie Kwaipun

Popular education, hegemony, and street children in Brazil : toward an ethnographic praxis / Samuel Veissière and Marcelo Diversi

Citizens educating themselves : the case of Argentina in the post-economic collapse era / Luis-Alberto D'Elia

A Freirian analysis of the process of conscientization in the Argentinian madres movement / Charlotte Baltodano

Adult education and development in the Caribbean / Jean Walrond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230607950

9780230607958

OCLC:

229342161

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