Adult literacy and its discontents: rethinking social justice issues in adult literacy

Authors

  • Daphne W. Ntiri Wayne State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55370/dsj.v1i1.484

Keywords:

social justice, adult literacy, black studies

Author Biography

Daphne W. Ntiri, Wayne State University

Full Professor, Department of African American Studies, WSU

Daphne W. Ntiri, PhD is Professor in the Department of African American Studies, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. She recently completed a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Her major areas of research are adult literacy, adult learning, transformative learning, gender and Third World studies.

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Published

2016-03-17

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Reflections

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