This article explores the application of Paulo Freire's methodological concerns in a contemporary, educational, non-revolutionary setting. It is focused on a Peace Educators' Workshop that meets three times annually to explore peace education in secondary schools in the United States. This treatment of Freire was developed for a day-long workshop…

As post-Taliban Afghanistan moves toward the establishment of a viable educational system, key stakeholders and donors are faced with the formidable challenge of how to most rapidly implement teacher training within an environment of diverse, changing, and largely unassessed training needs. The current article explores the dilemmas inherent in…

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…

During the 1940s and 1950s the U.S. Communist Party upgraded and broadened its adult education schools, abandoning or ideologically modifying the militant pedagogical centres that had sprung up during the 1920s and 1930s in many American cities. In New York the transformation was complicated as two Party schools (the Workers School and the School…

Describes the youth dissenters around the world, some of the factors motivating them, and some of the methods used by them in achieving their goals of social change. (AN)

The author contends there are many American myths operating in the schools at a subtle level which keep the poor and disadvantaged uncomplaining and apathetic. Basic adult education has not reached those most in need of it and does not deal with topics relevant to those people. Paulo Freire's approach of consciousness raising would reach that…

Since the founding of the modern Chinese state in 1949 until the end of the century, China has mobilised and experienced several social/political movements and economic transformations. Entering the twenty-first century, China's repositioning within the global context has brought about its new national policy and blueprint to build a socialist…

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…

Edgar Snow scored an extraordinary scoop in 1936 when he persuaded Mao Zedong to tell his story. The resulting book--"Red Star Over China"--was a best-seller in the West and translated editions caused a sensation in China. Adult education was the centrepiece of Communist revolution and featured prominently in Red Star. It is now the…

This article is a brief biography of Jose Marti, Cuban freedom fighter, educator, philospher, poet, writer, and apostle of freedom. Discussed are his philosophies of education and his attempts to help Latin American peoples attain self identity. (RR)

Explores the meanings and uses of the concept "global civil society." Looks at networks and networking as key practices in civil society. Examines the role of adult education. (SK)

In North America and Britain, libraries' long-standing relationship with adult education is evident in activities celebrating International Adult Learners Week. In South Africa and Brazil, resource centers supporting social change are reformulating the classic library role. The Adult Learning Documentation and Information Network connects these…

Although civil society is promoted as an alternative to the global marketplace, feminist critiques identify the failure of civil society discourse to address women's experiences. An inclusive civil society should reflect issues and concerns of both the homeplace and the workplace as they affect each person's life. (SK)