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Title: | Challenging donor agendas in adult and workplace education in Timor-Leste | Contributor(s): | Boughton, Robert G (author) | Publication Date: | 2009 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4905 | Abstract: | Timor-Leste (often called East Timor in the English-speaking world) is one of the world's newest and smallest nations. Its one million people occupy the eastern half of a small island at the eastern end of the Indonesian archipelago, a few hundred kilometres from Australia's northern coastline. Timor-Leste is at present the poorest country in Asia and one of the poorest in the world, despite having rich offshore oil and gas fields in the sea that separates it from Australia. Timor-Leste achieved its independence only in 2002, after a long and brutal occupation by the Indonesian military dictatorship of General Suharto, who invaded East Timor in 1975. Suharto aimed at preventing the island from achieving independence following the collapse of the previous occupying power, the fascist regime of Portugal, which had ruled East Timor for nearly 500 years. The current abject poverty in which 44 per cent of Timorese now live (UNDP 2006) is a direct result of those two colonial occupations, which plundered the natural and human resources of the country and maintained the Timorese in a state of total economic and political dependency (Dunn 1996). | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Learning/Work Turning Work and Lifelong Learning Inside Out, p. 74-87 | Publisher: | Human Science Research Council Press | Place of Publication: | Cape Town, South Africa | ISBN: | 0796922837 0796923027 9780796923028 0796922845 9780796922830 9780796922847 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 130108 Technical, Further and Workplace Education 130302 Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 930501 Education and Training Systems Policies and Development 939903 Equity and Access to Education |
HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://books.google.com.au/books?id=S44HQgAACAAJ http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36803243 |
Editor: | Editor(s): Cooper, Linda & Walters, Shirley |
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Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter |
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