Development assistance has long served as pretext for the transfer of technologies, policies, and strategies from Western industrialized countries to poorer areas of the world. The assumption is that the same successful results reached in the originating context can be replicated. One such cross-cultural transfer is a US adult education policy implemented in the rural areas of the Republic of Niger. / The policy, known as ROD, purports to transform local cooperatives into profit-making private enterprises, and to teach farmers the requisite skills and understandings. This study critically analyzes the intervention in order to (1) assess the viability of the proposed strategy as a "curriculum" for personal and organizational learning in rural Niger, (2) explicate the assumptions about the problems and potentials of the milieu on which it is based, (3) explore ways in which revised adult education practice might serve to better accommodate the policy to its context, and (4) draw some conclusions regarding the feasibility of this sort of transfer. / Results of the study suggest that the intervention strategy is interpreted and assessed in very different ways by stakeholders at different levels, and that it has been modified significantly in the course of implementation. These mostly haphazard modifications have not, however, been such as to ensure its success or acceptance, though they do suggest graphically which aspects of the policy are least accepted in the local context. The data also provide a basis for suggesting ways in which adult education could facilitate a better upfront adaptation and "reinvention" of the strategy in the field. In a more general sense, this study provides insights into the conditions for cross-cultural transfer of adult education-relevant policies between North and South, and the precautions that must be taken. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-08, Section: A, page: 2252. / Major Professor: Peter A. Easton. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77212 |
| Contributors | Sidikou, Maman Sambo., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 230 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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