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International Journal of Psychology and Cognitive Science  
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Deconstructing the Adult Education for Livelihood Transformation of Indigenous People in Nepal
International Journal of Psychology and Cognitive Science
Vol.4 , No. 2, Publication Date: May 9, 2018, Page: 37-45
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Authors
 
[1]    

Bishnu Bahadur Khatri, Central Department of Rural Development Studies, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.

[2]    

Devi Prasad Bhattarai, Central Department of Education, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.

 
Abstract
 

The conventional way of thinking about adult education, literacy program, has not properly influenced the life-sustaining and life-giving practices of indigenous people in developing countries like Nepal. However, the classical paradigm of adult education, literacy for illiterate, one size fits all approach, has still been a dominating mode of educating indigenous people in Nepal. The National Population Census 2011 identified 126 caste/ethnicity and indigenous people in Nepal, but the present adult education has not yet adequately corresponded to livelihood realities of these indigenous communities. This paper aims to illuminate the way by which classical paradigm of adult education can be deconstructed to the livelihood skills and strategies of indigenous people at local level. The paper utilizes the both data: field based and review of documents. The paper highlights that the form of adult education can locally be deconstructed to revive and restore the skills of every indigenous community for their better livelihood. The concern is to tailor the adult education according to the context, and the contents of indigenous skills that sustainably gear up the livelihood of indigenous people. Deconstruction of adult education is expected to energize the livelihood skills and strategies of indigenous people to transform the communities into a sustainably empowered one. A need to deconstruct the ways, the government and non-government institutions are supporting, is to provide adult education being more context-dependent that communicates subjective realities of indigenous community for their better livelihood.


Keywords
 

Adult Education, Deconstruction, Livelihood Transformation, Indigenous People


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