Minority Adult Participation in Adult Basic Education Programs: Cultural vs. Structural Factors.

Richardson, Chad

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Publication Date: 1980-Jun

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Minority Adult Participation in Adult Basic Education Programs: Cultural vs. Structural Factors.

Richardson, Chad

Ethnic Groups: An International Periodical of Ethnic Studies, v2 n4 p307-26 Jun 1980

Examines the participation of Blacks, Anglos, and Mexican Americans in adult basic education programs in Texas in terms of two opposing views which attribute poverty to the debilitating cultural characteristics of the poor or to the powerless position of the poor in an exploitative social structure. (Author/MK)

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Blacks, Cultural Context, Disadvantaged Environment, Economically Disadvantaged, Individual Power, Mexican Americans, Participation, Poverty, Social Structure, Whites

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Texas

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