Lifelong Learning and Development A Southern Perspective

by Preece, Julia

• ISBN13: 9781847062918
• ISBN10: 1847062911
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Julia Preece explores lifelong learning in the context of development as it is used for low and middle income countries, particularly with reference to Africa and South Asia. Taking a broadly postcolonial and critical theory perspective, thus privileging selected texts from the 'South' that highlight pre-colonial origins for lifelong learning, it critiques the discourse of development as it applies to education for low income countries, and explores relevant texts that apply lifelong learning principles to nation building and other development issues. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Julia Preece is Professor of Adult Education at the National University of Lesotho, Lesotho.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Postcolonial perspectives	p. 17
Historical and philosophical foundations for lifelong learning: perspectives from the South	p. 33
Development and lifelong learning	p. 50
Globalization - implications for lifelong learning in the South	p. 67
Lifelong learning in the South in the digital age	p. 84
Feminist perspectives on lifelong learning	p. 101
Case studies - Pakistan and India	p. 117
Case studies - Tanzania and Lesotho	p. 135
Lifelong learning and development - moving forward	p. 153
Notes	p. 164
References	p. 165
Index	p. 179
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