Indigenous women and adult learning / edited by Sheila Aikman, Anna Robinson-Pant.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Indigenous women and adult learning: Towards a paradigm change? / Sheila Aikman and Anna Robinson-Pant -- 1. Situating learning in the context of sustainability: Indigenous learning, formal schooling and beyond / Abeer Salem -- 2. Declared 'literate': Subjectivation through decontextualised literacy practices / Amina Singh and Dipti Sherchan -- 3. Indigenous knowledge, skills and action: Indigenous women's learning in the Peruvian Amazon / Sheila Aikman -- 4. Adult learning for nutrition security: Challenging dominant values through participatory action research in Eastern India / Rama Narayanan and Nitya Rao -- 5. Indigenous women's perceptions of the Mexican bilingual and intercultural education model / Ulrike Hanemann -- 6. Exploring the informal learning experiences of women in a pastoral community in Ethiopia: The case of pastoral women in Karrayyu / Turuwark Zalalam Warkineh and Abiy Menkir Gizaw -- 7. Negotiating indigenous identities within mainstream community livelihoods: Stories of Aeta women in the Philippines / Gina Lontoc -- 8. Indigenous adult women, learning and social justice: Challenging deficit discourses in the current policy environment / Sushan Acharya, Catherine M. Jere and Anna Robinson-Pant.

"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. The book examines contemporary education policy and questions the dominant deficit discourse of indigenous women as vulnerable."--Publisher's website.