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Download full textBhola, H. S. – ASBAE Courier, 1991
Literacy is a social process. Each person constructs his or her own "literate identity" and each community constructs its own "literate culture." At times, this local and individual process is at odds with literacy development on a large scale, undertaken through social intervention. Such social intervention is counter-social in that by trying to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Intervention, Literacy, Literacy Education
Peer reviewedArnove, Robert F.; Dewees, Anthony – Comparative Education Review, 1991
Traces the efforts of Nicaragua's Sandinista government to create a new education system consonant with the revolution's ideals of social justice. Describes educational policy goals; national literacy campaigns; nonformal adult basic education programs; and difficulties arising from poverty, U.S. opposition, and the contradictions of revolutionary…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Bown, Lalage – 1990
The outcomes of 43 project case studies and a country case study (Nepal) were examined to identify the impact of adult women's literacy. A look at women's situation in developing countries showed that women had multifarious roles, long working hours, and less access to education than males. The case studies revealed the following social effects of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Organizations, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedMallory, Bruce L. – Exceptional Children, 1996
This article examines the theory, research, and social policy relating to family and individual life-cycle transitions for people with disabilities in the United States. Examples from the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act illustrate both promising and inadequate policy…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Basic Education, At Risk Persons, Disabilities
Crowther, Jim, Ed.; Hamilton, Mary, Ed.; Tett, Lyn, Ed. – 2001
These 15 papers share a common theme: seeking to promote literacy as a powerful tool for challenging existing inequalities and dependencies. "Powerful Literacies" (Jim Crowther et al.) is an introduction. Section 1 establishes the theoretical and policy frameworks that underpin the book and shows how literacy is situated in different…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
Towards a Transformative Political Economy of Adult Education: Theoretical and Practical Challenges.
Wangoola, Paul, Ed.; Youngman, Frank, Ed. – 1996
This book contains 15 chapters, some of which are based on papers presented at an international workshop in Africa that brought together a diverse group of participants who shared a commitment to adult education for social transformation. The papers are organized in six sections. Following the first section, "A Transformative Political…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Community Change, Community Education
Massachusetts Univ., Amherst. Center for International Education. – 1987
This publication includes abstracts of all dissertations written by members of the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts since its inception in 1969. The Center offers training at the master's and doctoral levels in third world development education and nonformal education. The dissertations are based on work…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Area Studies, Black Colleges, College Role
