Lifelong Learning and Development A Southern Perspective

Julia Preece explores lifelong learning in the context of development as it is used for low and middle income countries, particularly with reference to Africa and South Asia. Taking a broadly postcolonial and critical theory perspective, thus privileging selected texts from the 'South' that highlight pre-colonial origins for lifelong learning, it critiques the discourse of development as it applies to education for low income countries, and explores relevant texts that apply lifelong learning principles to nation building and other development issues. Book jacket.

Julia Preece is Professor of Adult Education at the National University of Lesotho, Lesotho.