EDPS 425 - Global Education

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

This course considers how global education facilitates critical understanding concerning the contradictions of capitalist development and globalization for the Global South by addressing: dispossession-displacement-slumization of Indigenous Peoples and peasants; land, water, hunger and food sovereignty; migrant labor; poverty-inequality-debt; environment; conflict-peace; development-racism; educational neocolonialism; human rights, NGOs and social movements.

EDPS 520 - Adult Education, Popular Movements and NGOs in the Global South

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

This course will examine the role and nature of adult education and learning processes in social change initiatives being undertaken by development non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and by popular subaltern social movements of pastoralists, peasants, indigenous peoples, rural women and urban poor (shack dwellers) social groups in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean (Global South). These initiatives will be explored in terms of a critical contextual appreciation of the inter/national development project and neoliberal globalization.