Global Perspectives on Adult Education

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.

Global Perspectives on Adult Education; A.A.Abdi & D.Kapoor
Globalization and Adult Education in the South; E.Shizha & A.A.Abdi
Indigenous African Knowledges; L.Semali
Mwalimu's Mission: Julius Nyerere (Adult) Educator and Philosopher of Community Development; C.Minha & A.A.Abdi
Globalization, Dispossession and Subaltern Social Movement Learning; D.Kapoor
Paulo Freire and Adult Education; P.Mayo
Freire and Popular Education in Indonesia: INSIST and the Indonesian Volunteers for Social Transformation (Involvement) Program; A.Nuryatno
Nonformal Education, Economic Growth and Development: Challenges for Rural Buddhists in Bangladesh; B.Barua
East Meets West, Dewey Meets Confucious and Mao: A Philosophical Analysis of Adult Education in China; S.Guo
The Role of Continuing Education in Zimbabwe; M.Kariwo
Popular Education and Organized Response to Gold Mining in Ghana; V.Kwaipun
Popular Education, Hegemony, and Street Children in Brazil: Towards an Ethnographic Praxis; S.Veissiere & M.Diversi
Citizens Educating Themselves: The Case of Argentina in the Post-Economic Collapse Era; L.D'Elia
Freirian Analysis of the Process of Conscientization in the Argentinian Madres Movement; C.Baltodano
Adult Education and Development in the Caribbean; J.Walrond


ALI A. ABDI is Professor of Education at the University of Alberta, Canada.
DIP KAPOOR is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Alberta, Canada.