Abstract: | Poverty reduction is deeply implicated in structures of politics, economy, culture, and technology, from the global down to
local levels. Irrespective of the particular political ideology of a nation and of the specific strategy of mobilization,
adult and life-long education can and must play a significant role in reducing poverty, including preventing its inception.
Yet the adult-education sector does not seem to be ready for this challenge. The present study argues that the re-education
of adult educators is a dire necessity for effective poverty reduction. It also maintains that adult educators must be re-socialized
in terms of their potential new roles as intellectual-activists. Only so can they work successfully towards introducing systems
of adult and life-long education that are truly comprehensive and genuinely commensurate with the goals of poverty reduction. |