The author initiated a method called rural animation to change the big conservative agricultural population of Tanzania. This method is based on making the local people aware of the problems of development and giving them a feeling of desire for change. Then training programs and action techniques will be initiated successfully. (RR)

In his communique to his people the President of Tanzania stressed the importance of adult education for each individual. The prime objectives of adult education, he said, are to combat inertia and bring about self fulfillment of the individual both for himself and his country. (RR)

Popular education contributes to democracy by helping people respond to the demands of a society in the midst of evolution, by turning the right to learn into a reality, and by being a tool for personal development and community growth. (SK)

Presents four dimensions of a model of global education: inner, temporal, spatial, and issues related. Outlines key ideas, knowledge, skills, and attitudes for each dimension. Describes learning and teaching in the global classroom. (SK)

In 1945, the Conrad (Montana) Study Group began a commitment to long-term community action that illustrates the principles of transformative research: awareness, active involvement, and social reconstruction. (SK)

Arts activities in prisons, such as the work of Britain's Geese Theatre Company, have a therapeutic effect but are often hampered by lack of funds, materials, and space and difficulties with the attitudes of prison administrators and staff. (SK)

The Prime Minister of Jamaica outlines global economic and human development challenges and the role of education in building a learning society. (SK)

Examines administrative attitudes on correspondence education and notes that correspondence study is in many ways proving to be a more effective method of imparting education than the conventional classroom instruction given in colleges and universities. (Author/RK)

This article discusses youth and adult education in a twofold perspective: that of a human right and that of human development. The first perspective is related to the concept of rights and the second perspective is related to the guarantee or negation of the right to development. In this article, the author discusses the universality of rights…

Presents some educational principles, which are intended to ensure conditions indispensable for the all-round development of each individual, and suggests those principles as a basis for modernizing the present educational system and adult education. (Author/RK)

Outlines perspectives of nonformal education programs: (1) development (human resource development and integrated rural development) and (2) emancipatory (radical and liberal). (SK)

A prison reading club can provide motivation to learn to read and write, reinforce conventional learning, and support individual development. The literate environment created is a tool for resocialization of incarcerated youth and young adults. (SK)

Literacy is often based on a type of need (a good to which all should have access, escape from isolation, tool of productivity). The delivery of "packaged" skills based on these approaches ignores the capacity of adult learners to articulate their own needs. (SK)

This article is based on a broad study commissioned by Sida (Swedish International Development Agency) on the status and current trends in adult basic education in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The study included a review of relevant documentation in several languages, an electronic survey with key respondents throughout the…

Traditionally women have been signified to be "for others", never for themselves. This conceptualisation is also present in the discourses about literacy. The traditional discourse justifies women's literacy based on the need to improve family health, well-being, educational access, and so on. Thus, it is seen as a tool for other ends…