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Download full textBoughton, Bob; Durnan, Deborah – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2021
The ideas of the Cuban 'School of Literacy' are much less well-known in the west than Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. This paper is an exploration of the theoretical and practical links between these two historic examples of popular education. The analysis is informed by our direct experience working and undertaking participatory action…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Popular Education, Foreign Countries
Direct linkWeitzel, Lia – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2018
This article focuses on the implementation of the Cuban "Yes, I Can" adult literacy campaign in Indigenous Australian communities in north west New South Wales (NSW). It examines the interplay between empowerment, disempowerment and commodification in education in Australia in order to assess what new elements the Cuban "Yes, I…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Empowerment
Boughton, Bob; Durnan, Deborah – International Review of Education, 2014
In the field of international adult education, mass literacy campaigns enjoyed wide support in the 20th century, when they were seen as a way to increase the participation of previously marginalised and excluded populations in national development. Cuba's 1961 campaign achieved iconic status, but was only one of many successful campaigns in Latin…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Postmodernism
