Adult Education and Popular Education in Latin America: Implications for a Radical Approach to Comparative Education.

Torres, Carlos Alberto

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ERIC Number: EJ414506

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Publication Date: 1990

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Adult Education and Popular Education in Latin America: Implications for a Radical Approach to Comparative Education.

Torres, Carlos Alberto

International Journal of Lifelong Education, v9 n4 p271-87 Oct-Dec 1990

Proposes a political sociology of adult and popular education in Latin America as a basis for a radical comparative approach. Discusses four problems associated with adult and popular education: definition, the political nature of education, quality of comparative research data, and the need for good theories. (SK)

Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational Sociology, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries, Mass Instruction, Nonformal Education, Political Socialization, Politics of Education, Popular Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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