Timor-Leste: Adult Literacy, Popular Education and Post-conflict Peacebuilding

Robert G Boughton

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Timor-Leste: Adult Literacy, Popular Education and Post-conflict Peacebuilding

Robert G Boughton

School of Education

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Abstract

Timor-Leste, one of the world's newest countries, gained its independence in 2002, after a protracted national liberation struggle against occupying Indonesian military forces and a brief period of United Nations rule. In 2006, the first independence government initiated a national adult literacy campaign, with the support of a team of Cuban advisers, who brought with them a literacy teaching model, known internationally by its Spanish name Yo, Si Puedo! (Trans: Yes, I Can!). By the time the campaign officially concluded, in December 2012, it had reached over 200,000 people. This chapter draws on evidence collected during an in-country participatory action research evaluation of this campaign to discuss the contribution of popular education to post-conflict peacebuilding and development.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave International Handbook on Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning
Editors	Marcella Milana, Sue Webb, John Holford, Richard Waller, Peter Jarvis
Place of Publication	London, United Kingdom
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	629-647
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9781137557827, 9781137557834
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55783-4_32
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Comparative and Cross-Cultural Education
Continuing and Community Education

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Timor-Leste: Adult Literacy, Popular Education and Post-conflict Peacebuilding. / Boughton, Robert G.
The Palgrave International Handbook on Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning. ed. / Marcella Milana; Sue Webb; John Holford; Richard Waller; Peter Jarvis. 1. ed. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. p. 629-647.

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