Development as a growth process is what every person, nation and state seeks from day to day. The issues of development and better welfare are generally important to the average man and woman, especially in developing countries like Nigeria. Nigeria and other African countries need to instigate the principles and strategies that will bring about…

The picture the World Bank paints of the world is an optimistic one: living standards are higher than ever before, humanity is progressing, and situations for women are improving. If this is really the case, why then does "the impoverishment of hundreds of millions of people" throughout the world continue? (Chossudovsky 1997, 33). Why do "the…

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The author hypothesizes that the greatest problem confronting education in Africa is the need to find new and constructive methods of improving social and economic conditions. He suggests that adult education is a vital and necessary solution and must be implemented. (RR)

Distinguishing between political science and political education, the Tanzanian author discusses the latter as a necessary weapon for freedom and human development in any country'' in the contexts of political education and freedom, ideologies, colonialism, equality of women, international understanding, political education for the masses and the…

Since the 1965 Teheran Congress 0n functional literacy, 52 nations have asked to participate in the world program, and 38 of them have received planning and consultant missions from UNESCO. (LY)

The author stresses the need for both technological and educational programs in under-developed countries. He feels that it is useless to teach technological skills without first teaching basic social principles and the direction in which things are going. (Author/RR)

Takes a critical look at the "new literacy studies." Describes an experimental workshop on Training for Organization, a Brazilian method focused on the relationship between literacy and power. (SK)

Representatives from around the world met in Persepolis, 1975, at the invitation of the Iranian government for a symposium on literacy. A variety of topics were discussed, and a Declaration regarding fundamental matters affecting adult education was unanimously adopted. (LH)