Global Perspectives on Adult Education

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Global Perspectives on Adult Education: An Introduction....Pages 1-16
Globalization and Adult Education in the South....Pages 17-34
Cultural Perspectives in African Adult Education: Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Lifelong Learning....Pages 35-51
Mwalimu’s Mission: Julius Nyerere as (Adult) Educator and Philosopher of Community Development....Pages 53-69
Globalization, Dispossession, and Subaltern Social Movement (SSM) Learning in the South....Pages 71-92
Paulo Freire and Adult Education....Pages 93-105
Freire and Popular Education in Indonesia: Indonesian Society for Social Transformation (INSIST) and the Indonesian Volunteers for Social Transformation (Involvement) Program....Pages 107-124
Nonformal Education, Economic Growth and Development: Challenges for Rural Buddhists in Bangladesh....Pages 125-140
East Meets West, Dewey Meets Confucius and Mao: A Philosophical Analysis of Adult Education in China....Pages 141-158
The Role of Continuing Education in Zimbabwe....Pages 159-173
Popular Education and Organized Response to Gold Mining in Ghana....Pages 175-191
Popular Education, Hegemony, and Street Children in Brazil: Toward an Ethnographic Praxis....Pages 193-206
Citizens Educating Themselves: The Case of Argentina in the Post-Economic Collapse Era....Pages 207-220
A Freirean Analysis of the Process of Conscientization in the Argentinean Madres Movement....Pages 221-237
Adult Education and Development in the Caribbean....Pages 239-255
Back Matter....Pages 257-263