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Nonformal Education As An Empowering Process With Case Studies From Indonesia And Thailand, Suzanne Kindervatter
Nonformal Education As An Empowering Process With Case Studies From Indonesia And Thailand, Suzanne Kindervatter
Non-Formal Education
This study develops a role for nonformal education consonant with recent thinking on Third World development: nonformal education as an empowering process. A consideration of nonformal education's relationship to the new concepts of development is particularly important today. The effectiveness of traditional models of development has been seriously questioned and new approaches have been defined. As a development sector, nonformal education should adapt to these new definitions.
The first part of the study establishes a rationale for the role of empowering. The second part evolves both the concept and practice of nonformal education as an empowering process.
To build the …
The Wayside Mechanic: An Analysis Of Skill Acquisition In Ghana, Stephen Douglas Mclaughlin
The Wayside Mechanic: An Analysis Of Skill Acquisition In Ghana, Stephen Douglas Mclaughlin
Non-Formal Education
This is a study of skill learning in an informal learning setting in Africa. The purpose of the study is to describe an analyze the nature of the skill acquisition process in one indigenous training system: the apprenticeship of the wayside mechanics workshops in Koforidua, Ghana.
The study first examines informal skill training from a broad perspective. The history of the West African craft workshop and its associated apprenticeship is traces. Several major themes in the literature on informal skill training systems such as apprenticeships.
The second part of the study describes the specific setting of the wayside mechanics workshops …