Open AccessValue and Impact of Adult Education: Voices of Zambian Communities
Author(s) -
Daniel L. Mpolomoka,
Musonda Luchembe,
Selina Banda,
Peter Sampa
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of educational studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2641-533X
DOI - 10.53935/2641-533x.v2i4.131
Subject(s) - thematic analysis , value (mathematics) , sociology , focus group , narrative , chiefdom , population , adult education , gender studies , social science , socioeconomics , pedagogy , qualitative research , anthropology , demography , political science , linguistics , philosophy , politics , computer science , law , machine learning
Value, Adult education, Community.
Zambian communities are rich with voices of the value of adult education, albeit unsystematically documented. It is these insightful voices that this article unveils. Phenomenological research design was employed. Three research sites were targeted comprising two chiefdoms and covering four villages, two villages from each chief dom. Data was collected using interviews and focus group discussions. After coding the data, narrative and thematic methods of data analysis were used. Findings reveal that the value of adult education is measured informally by the number of the adult population able to access social amenities equitably and equally on one hand, and on the other, by their ability to read the „word and the world‟ as purported by Freire and Macedo (1987).