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Madame Li Li: Communist Revolutionary, Adult Educator, Lifelong Learner
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Boshier, Roger; Huang, Yan – Studies in Continuing Education, 2009
Prior to 1949 the Chinese Communist Party orchestrated innovative and participatory forms of adult education. This article concerns Madame Li Li, a leading Chinese Communist woman adult educator. Western delegates at the International Council for Adult Education 1984 Shanghai symposium on adult education were fascinated by Madame Li Li because,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biographies, Adult Educators, Adult Education
More Important than Guns: Chinese Adult Education after the Long March
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Boshier, Roger; Yan Huang, – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2010
Without adult education, there would have been no Communist government in China. Once the Long March arrived in Yan'an, Mao and Communist leaders used adult education in informal and nonformal settings to build momentum for revolution. This article analyzes the theory and practice of adult education during the Yan'an "golden years"…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Theory Practice Relationship, Political Socialization
From Mao to Now: Does K'angta Still Shape Adult Education in China?
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Boshier, Roger; Huang, Yan – Convergence, 2008
Soon after remnants of the Long March reached Yan'an, the Communist Party established adult and higher education institutions. K'angta--the anti-Japanese university--was at the centre of attempts to resist foreign invaders and, after October 1, 1949, became a model for the rest of China. K'angta owed much to Mao's essays On Practice and On…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Adult Education