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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Santiago (Chile). Regional Office for Education in Latin America and Caribbean. – 1988
This bulletin is concerned with the efficiency and effectiveness of educational systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. "Adult Education between Two Models" (H. R. Lovisolo) investigates the concept of popular emancipatory education in Brazil and the transformation of MOBRAL (Brazilian Movement of Literacy) into the Fundacion EDUCAR.…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Dropout Rate, Educational Change
Aspeslagh, Robert, Ed.; van den Berg, Jannie, Ed. – 1991
This reader on literacy provides a clear account of the major perspectives on literacy and adult education through 20 papers divided into three categories. An introduction provides an overview of the content of the papers. Part 1, "Issues," contains seven papers: "Literacy: Access to Power" (Dijkstra); "Development and the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Development, Adult Literacy, Developing Nations
Voices Rising: A Bulletin about Women and Popular Education, 1990
This document consists of the six issues of the serial "Voices Rising" issued during the four-year period 1987-1990. "Voices Rising" is the primary networking tool of the Women's Program of the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE). Articles in these issues include: "Tribute to a Courageous Woman--Nabila…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Battered Women, Consciousness Raising
Marshall, Judith; And Others – 1991
This kit of materials, designed for trainers of adult literacy teachers, attempts to capture the experience of five adult literacy workers from Mozambique on a study tour of Nicaragua and Brazil, and to introduce the user to the concept, methodology, and tools of "popular literacy." The kit both reports an experience and offers a set of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Classroom Techniques
Medel-Anonuevo, Carolyn, Ed. – 1995
This document contains seven papers about and from the International Seminar on Women's Education and Empowerment, which was convened to give women educators and researchers from diverse sociocultural backgrounds an opportunity to examine collectively different education practices and their theoretical implications for empowering women. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Developing Nations, Education Work Relationship
Youngman, Frank – 2000
This book, which is based on a broad concept of adult education that embraces all forms of organized learning undertaken by adults, draws on empirical information and case studies to provide a theory of applied political economy to explain the interface between society and adult education in developing countries. The following are among the topics…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Capitalism
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United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Hamburg (Germany). Inst. for Education. – 1997
This document contains information about and papers from meetings of educational practitioners and policymakers in the Asia-Pacific region, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, and the Arab States and a collective consultation of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) on literacy and education for all. Contents (arranged by region) are…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Adult Education, Adult Literacy
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Armstrong, Paul, Ed.; And Others – 1997
The following are among the 104 papers included: "Vocational Education and Training Partnerships in Remote Aboriginal Communities" (Arnott, Dembski); "Participation in Adult Education" (Benn); "Learning Organisations" (Bierema); "A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Institutional Dynamics Involved in a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education