Adult Education and Development, 1994.

Overview & Synopsis

The publication is a half-yearly journal for adult education in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Issue 42 includes the following: "Adult Education for Self-Reliance in Community Health Education Programmes" (Kweka); "Promoting Good Nutrition" (Mangvwat); "Incorporating Health-Improvement Activities in Adult Education Programmes in Nigeria" (Momodu); "The Need To Develop Critical Thinking Skills in a Core Training Programme for Primary Health Care Workers" (Cornielje); "Democracy and Adult Education in Tanzania" (Mushi); "Role of Voluntary Action in a Contemporary Context" (Tandon); "Make It Global--Make It Local but Always Do It Democratically" (Vio Grossi); "Literacy Skills as Building Bricks for Trade Union Democracy" (Ireland); "Micro-Enterprise in the Informal Sector of Managua and the Long Road to Vocational Competence" (Overwien); "Experience of a French Adult Educator" (Adebisi); "Managing Tutors in Distance Education" (Tong); "A Learner-centered Approach to Training the African Manager" (Ronan); "European Adult Education"; "Development Education in Germany" (Hager, Niemann); "Volkshochschulen and International Contacts" (Durste, Fenner); "Adult Education and Lifelong Learning"; "Indigenous Education and Social Organization" (Tamayo); "A Letter to a Television Network and Its Response" (Samlowski); "A Concept for Bilingual Intercultural Education for Indigenous Women" (Jauregui); and "The Political Challenge of Indigenous Education in Latin America" (Prado). A supplement to issue 42 is titled "An Introduction to Indigenous Education in East Africa" (Ocitti). Issue 43 begins with the history of the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association and a description of the institute's 1993 activities. The following articles are included: "Development-Oriented Adult Education Balancing between Impoverishment and Emancipatory Learning Processes" (Hildebrand); "Policy and Practice of Literacy" (Hinzen); "Migrants and Ethnic Minorities" (Leumer); "New Challenges in Development Education" (Apel, Niemann); "Current Action for the Promotion of Women in the European Union" (Plesser-Loper); "What Comes First and What Comes Second" (Samlowski); "Adult Education in Transition in Central Europe, the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent States], and the Baltic States" (Strewe); "Trends in the Development of Adult Education as a Profession" (Duke); "The European Dimension of Adult Education" (Sussmuth); and "Learning in Civil Society" (Tandon). International cooperation and international developments in adult education are illustrated by 22 documents from 1960-1994. Appendixes include abbreviations and lists of the Institute's publications. (YLB)