1st Edition
Education and other modes of thinking in Latin America
Introduction: Education and other modes of thinking in Latin America Robert Aman and Timothy Ireland
1. Decolonial pedagogies walking and asking: Notes to Paulo Freire from AbyaYala Catherine E. Walsh
2. From Hamburg to Belem: the limits of technocratic thinking in adult learning education Carlos Alberto Torres
3. Emotions in the history of Latin American popular education: construction for a thinking-feeling pedagogy Danilo R. Streck
4. Popular education in solidarity economy José Francisco de Melo Neto and Francisco Xavier Pereira da Costa
5. Gender structure and women’s agency: toward greater theoretical understanding of education for transformation Nelly P. Stromquist
6. On competences and values: from the desire to educate to educating the desire of being Roberto Sancho Larrañaga
7. Performing transformation in the Community University of the Rivers Dan Baron Cohen
Biography
Robert Aman is Lecturer in Education in the School of Education, University of Glasgow, UK. His research focuses on the relationship between education, the geopolitics of knowledge and various forms of exclusion and marginalisation, drawing on decolonial theories. His book, Decolonising Intercultural Education: Colonial Differences, the Geopolitics of Knowledge, and Inter-Epistemic Dialogue, is forthcoming with Routledge.
Timothy Ireland is Associate Professor at the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil, where he teaches on the postgraduate programmes in Education and Human Rights and is currently Director of the UNESCO Chair in Youth and Adult Education. His principal areas of research relate to education in prisons, the use of digital media in the literacy process, and international policy on adult lifelong learning and education. His most recent book, Adult Education in Retrospective: 60 years of CONFINTEA, was published by UNESCO in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
