Global perspectives on adult education : African, Asian and Latin American perspectives / edited by Ali A. Abdi and Dip Kapoor.

Includes bibliographical references.

Global perspectives on adult education: an introduction / Ali A. Abdi and Dip Kapoor -- Globalization and adult education in the South / Edward Shizha and Ali A. Abdi -- Cultural perspectives in African adult education: indigenous ways of knowing in lifelong learning / Ladislaus Semali -- Mwalimu's mission: Julius Nyerere (adult) educator and philosopher of community development / Christine Mhina and Ali A. Abdi -- Globalization, dispossession and subaltern social movement (SSM) learning in the South / Dip Kapoor -- Paulo Freire and adult education / Peter Mayo -- Freire and popular education in Indonesia: INSIST and the Indonesian volunteers for social transformation (involvement) program / Muhammad Agus Nuryatno -- Nonformal education, economic growth and development: challenges for rural Buddhists in Bangladesh / Bijoy Barua -- East meets West, Dewey meets Confucious and Mao: a philosophical analysis of adult education in China / Shibao Guo -- The role of continuing education in Zimbabwe / Michael Kariwo -- Popular education and organized response to gold mining in Ghana / Valerie Kwaipun -- Popular education, hegemony and street children in Brazil: towards an ethnographic praxis / Samuel Veissiere and Marcelo Diversi -- Citizens educating themselves: the case of Argentina in the post-economic collapse era / Luis D'Elia -- Freirian analysis of the process of conscientization in the Argentinian madres movement / Charlotte Baltodano -- Adult education and development in the Caribbean / Jean Walrond.