Indigenous Women and Adult Learning

<p>In contemporary educational research practice and policy ‘indigenous women’ have emerged as an important focus in the global education arena and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. This edited book investigates what is significant about indigenous women and their learning in terms of policy directions research agendas and not least their own aspirations.</p><p>The book examines contemporary education policy and questions the dominant deficit discourse of indigenous women as vulnerable. By contrast this publication demonstrates the marginalisations and multiple discriminations that indigenous women confront as indigenous persons as women and as indigenous women. Chapters draw on ethnographic research in Egypt Ethiopia India Mexico Nepal Peru and the Philippines and engage with indigenous women’s learning from the perspectives of rights gender equality and cultural linguistic and ontological diversity. The book investigates intergenerational and intercultural learning and indigenous women’s agency and power in the face of complex and dynamic changing social physical economic and cultural environments. The grounded ethnographic chapters illustrate indigenous women’s diverse historical and contemporary experiences of inequalities opportunities and formal education and how these influence their strengths learning aspirations and ways of learning as well as their values demands desires and practices.</p><p>Chapters 1– 6 and 8 in this book were originally published in a special issue of the journal <i>Studies in the Education of Adults.</i></p>