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Abstract: Access to quality basic adult education is a concern in many countries throughout the world. In this innovative study, sixteen researchers from ten different countries in the Western and Arab worlds look at adult education, and discuss how an ecological approach to education focusing on the cultural traditions and natural environments of communities can be more useful than education in specialized institutions. Education, they argue, should involve the transmission of knowledge and know-how within an environment appropriate to the students. This interdisciplinary collection of essays is a follow-up to preceding works of research on literacy, published in the ALPHA series in Quebec and at UNESCO over the past twenty years. In their humanist, ecological vision of the world, the contributors aim to provide alternatives to neocapitalist thinking, and promote local education and development through international cooperation.
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Foreword ix Open Carriage xiii Lisa Zucker, Canada INTRODUCTION Ecological Approaches in Basic Education: Jean-Paul Hautecoeur, Canada PART ONE Shifting the Education Paradigm Ecological Education in the Living Environment Laila Iskandar Kamel, Egypt Abundance As a Central Idea in Ecological Approaches in Education Munir Fasheh, Palestinian Territories Ecology and Basic Education among the Indigenous Peoples of Canada Serge Wagner, Canada From Reaching In to Reaching Out: El-Warsha 1987–1999 Hassan El-Geretly, Egypt The Creation of Knowledge through Environmental Education Paolo Orefice, Italy Contents An Ecological Culture for Teachers Viara Gurova, Bulgaria PART TWO Stimulating Participation through Social Action Education for Regional Sustainable Development Jan Keller, Czech Republic Environmental Adult Education in the Czech Republic Michal Bartos, Czech Republic Literacy Practices in Local Activities: An Ecological Approach David Barton, United Kingdom Addressing Alexandria′s Environmental Problems Adel Abu Zahra, Egypt The Campaign against the MAI in Canada Brian Sarwer-Foner, Canada PART THREE For Sustainable Endogenous Development Sustainable Development Literacy in Central Appalachia Anthony Flaccavento, United States Sustainable Community Development with Human Dimensions: The Basaisa Experience Salah Arafa, Egypt Revitalizing a Depopulating Region in Hungary Valeria Nagy Czanka and Ildiko Mihaly, Hungary Agricultural Development and the Preservation of Indigenous Knowledge Ismail Daiq and Shawkat Sarsour, Palestinian Territories CLOSING REMARKS The Nuweiba Seminar Jean-Paul Hautecoeur Notes on Contributors
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