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Forty Years of Popular Education in Latin America

Lessons for Social Movements Today

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Learnning and Educationfor a Bettter World

Part of the book series: International Issues in adult Education ((ADUL,volume 10))

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In attempting to understand the contribution of social movements to education for social change, recent experiences in Latin American offer rich pickings for research. The region contains a wide variety of social movements that explicitly address the question of how education can and should contribute to their struggles.

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  1. University of Victoria, Canada

    Budd L. Hall

  2. University of Victoria, Canada

    Darlene E. Clover

  3. The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Jim Crowther

  4. Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Eurig Scandrett

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Kane, L. (2012). Forty Years of Popular Education in Latin America. In: Hall, B.L., Clover, D.E., Crowther, J., Scandrett, E. (eds) Learnning and Educationfor a Bettter World. International Issues in adult Education, vol 10. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-979-4_5

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