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Title: | Cuba's Contribution to Adult Literacy, Popular Education, and Peace Building in Timor-Leste | Contributor(s): | Boughton, Robert G (author) | Publication Date: | 2012 | DOI: | 10.1057/9781137014634 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11986 | Abstract: | In Timor-Leste, a national adult literacy campaign supported by a small team of Cuban advisers was launched in 2007. By 2010, three years later, over 70,000 people completed a 13-week basic literacy course, and the campaign looks set to have a major impact on the country's 50 percent illiteracy rate. This chapter, drawing on findings from in-country fieldwork funded by the Australian Research Council, outlines the achievements of the literacy campaign, and assesses the contribution that Cuba's adult literacy work is making to postconflict peace building and the achievement of postcolonial independence. This unusual and innovative experiment in mass popular adult education, undertaken with high levels of local involvement and minimal donor support, stands in sharp contrast with the more dominant neoliberal models of education and training for state building, favored by international agencies such as the World Bank. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Grant Details: | ARC/LP0775034 | Source of Publication: | The Capacity to Share: A Study of Cuba's International Cooperation in Educational Development, p. 197-214 | Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | Place of Publication: | New York, United States of America | ISBN: | 9781137014634 9781137014627 9780230338807 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130101 Continuing and Community Education | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 390301 Continuing and community education | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 930501 Education and Training Systems Policies and Development 940302 International Aid and Development |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 160205 Policies and development 230302 International aid and development |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/153842589 | Series Name: | Postcolonial Studies in Education | Editor: | Editor(s): Anne Hickling-Hudson, Jorge Corona Gonzalez, and Rosemary Preston |
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