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- Transformation in the South African discourse refers to a process of transition from exclusion to inclusion in all spheres of daily life. This paper identifies inclusion as bringing wideranging changes in the lives of women farmers traditionally relegated to small-scale gardening at subsistence level. Although concerned with the historical issue of separate development particularly in gender and access terms, the paper focuses on an ongoing development project initiated with a small rural community in Colenso and monitored by the Farmer Support Group and the Centre for Adult and Community Education at the University of Natal, Durban. It discusses the Participatory Learning method applied and attempts to understand two critical factors. These are, firstly, how notions of equity, social justice and non-discrimination are understood and manifested through government policy and community experience. Secondly, the importance of the woman and her rural household in the practical interpretation of sustainable livelihoods and cultural practices which will lead to socio-economic transformation. The underlying assumption of all thoseinvolved in the project is that the participatory learning method is the method best able tofacilitate and measure the process of transition without dramatically alienating and distorting cultural traditions.
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- 2000-07-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- Advertisement for the International social science journal
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- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Gil Loescher and Laila Monahan (eds.). Refugees and international relations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990
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- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Richard Sandbrook. The politics of Africa's economic recovery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993
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- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- As a way of eradicating illiteracy globally, UNESCO declared 1990 as the International Literacy Year (ILY). This is because about 963 million adults are still illiterate all over the world and this colossal figure can inhibit development effort in each of the countries concerned. Since most developing countries of Africa do not have less than a 60% illiteracy rate, efforts must be intensified to drastically reduce this figure. Education the world over is a strong weapon of social change, a bedrock of national socioeconomic development and an instrument for breaking the backdrop of oppression, ignorance, victimisation and perpetual dependence. This paper analyses the roles which a Continuing Education Programme (CEP) could play in assisting with the individual's growth and development in any society. A general overview of the modus operandi of the CEP in Nigeria is made and used as a signpost for stimulating educational advancement in Lesotho. This is with a view to improve not only the failure rate of students at the COSC examinations but also as a means of adequately integrating the illiterate returning adult miners into society through the provision of viable functional and vocational education. Recommendations are made as to the modalities of effectively conducting Continuing Education Programmes, in particular for the institutions that are supposedly charged with the responsibilities of organising non-formal education programmes in Lesotho. One hopes that the detailed analysis regarding the methodology of CEP could even be adopted and/or adapted by other developing countries of Africa as a way of stimulating educational development and thus eradicating illiteracy and ignorance.
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- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- The development of institutionalized voluntary sector or the nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Africa is a complementary response to the shortfall in public sector provision. But that development was made possible because of the existence of communitarian principles of advocacy, obligation and responsibility, already practised in the extended family before the arrival of the European Christian missions. The success of foreign NGGs is due to the management principles of openness, accountability and non-distributiveness demonstrated in their operations. It is proposed that African NGOs should apply their communitarian principles to these management principles so as to become more responsive to the needs of their people. In this way African NGGs will be able to tap into their local resource base to fund more good causes as well as contributing towards an inclusive and sustainable bottom-up democratic welfare system.
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- 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of Zimbabwe: the political economy of transition 1980-86, edited by Ibbo Man'daza (Dakar: Codesria, 1986)
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- 1987-08-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- African Journal of Political Economy