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Kumar, Krishna – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1982
The view that poverty and riches are caused by two distinct personality traits is perpetuated through educational materials. Examples drawn from secondary social studies texts and adult education programs in India illustrate how an educational system is a medium of cultural dissemination and political control. (AM)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Cultural Influences, Curriculum
Steele, Tom; Taylor, Richard – 1995
This book is a political analysis of the role of adult education as an agency of cultural and ideological significance in India from the turbulent period in the 1940s onward. The introduction examines the roots of education in India, the English studies courses that developed when India was a British colony, and continuation of colonial…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Change Agents, Educational Environment
