Product Description: Hal Adams was a legendary radical educator who organized writing workshops with people who had been written off during much of their lives, marginalized for reasons of race, gender, class, and caste. Hal detested the carelessness and neglect his students endured and set about building spaces of respect and reparation...read more

In the former colonial world, the discourse of development has established an unquestioned intellectual and political dominance. This book provides a theory of applied political economy to explain the interface between society and adult education in developing countries. It draws on empirical information from various parts of the world.