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Popular Education Pedagogy and South–South Solidarity

An Asia Pacific Perspective

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Forging Solidarity

Part of the book series: International Issues in Adult Education ((ADUL))

Abstract

Australia, our homeland, is a colonial settler state, created as a nation in 1901 from six separate colonial territories illegally claimed by Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. This massive land theft dispossessed over 500 separate Indigenous nations, numbering perhaps one million people, who had occupied the continent and associated islands for over 50,000 years.

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    Bob Boughton

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Boughton, B., Durnan, D. (2017). Popular Education Pedagogy and South–South Solidarity. In: Kotze, A.v., Walters, S. (eds) Forging Solidarity. International Issues in Adult Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-923-2_4

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