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Title:Adult education: an account of hopes and failures, a plead for dialoges
Authors:Roth, Klaus
Treydte, Klaus-Peter
Year:1978
Periodical:Vierteljahresberichte Probleme der Entwicklungsländer
Issue:72
Pages:111-122
Language:English
Geographic term:developing countries
Subject:adult education
Abstract:There are two adult education areas: 1. training of personal skills (literacy, vocational training, supplementary courses), which an adult might need for his personal career; 2. civic information (political education, leadership training), which an adult needs for better recognizing his place, rights and duties in society. The A.'s sketch a pictureof adult education trends and logic and criticize from the point of view of an agency being involved in adult education in Third World countries in policy-oriented and technical sector. Two summary charts concern 1. Adult education theories and trends, and 2. Techniques in adult education. The article is followed by: Selemani, Yusufu, 'I was made to work like a plough', a worker at Mshi, Tanzania, who writes about his thoughts and feelings when he became literate. Notes, ref. Bibl. p. 193-195.
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