Adult Education, Culture Development and Social Movements: The Contemporary Challenge

Abstract

We are now living in a rapidly changed world. Certain characteristics of the world are specially relevant for our discussion on adult education and cultural development. characteristic of this is the unipolar nature of First the contemporary world scenario. This unipolar nature is not merely in geographical, political or military sense, but it is unipolar in economic and socio-cultural sense as well. It is now being Increasingly assumed that capitalist form of economic organisation as demonstrated in the countries of the North is the only appropriate form of economic organisation in all countries of the world. As a result, there are increasing pressures on Local communities (which have tried to organise their economic and socio-cultural reality through centuries of tradition and experience) to adapt to this singular form of economic organisation.