QualityAdultEducationBenchmarksIndigenousEducation.pdfVIP

? Quality?Adult?Education?Benchmarks? for?Indigenous?Education? Prepared?as?a?Discussion?paper?for?ASPBAE? ? ? June?2011? Asia?South?Pacific?Association?for?Basic?and?Adult?Education? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Written?by?Sandra?L.?Morrison,?Te?Pua?Wananga?ki?te?Ao,?The?University?of?Waikato?and?Dr.?Timote? Vaioleti,? Faculty? of? Education,? University? of? Waikato? for? ASPBAE? and? reviewed? by? Nafisa? Goga? D’Souza.? The? Paper? compiles? discussions? and? inputs? on? Quality? Adult? Education? Benchmarks? for? Indigeneous? Education? from? the? Core? Group? amongst? ASPBAE? membership? that? attended? the? Workshop? on? Building? a? Shared? Understanding? on? Benchmarks? for? Quality? Adult? Education? in? the? Asia?Pacific,?held?at?Jakarta?from?November?20‐22,?2010.?? ? Introduction? In?November?2010,?in?Indonesia,?Asia?South?Pacific?Association?for?Basic?and?Adult?Education? (ASPBAE)?brought?together?a?number? of? educators? from? across? its?region?to?discuss? benchmarking?quality?adult?education?for?indigenous?peoples.?Educators?came?from?across?the? ASPBAE? region? including? the? Philippines,? India,? Nepal,? New? Zealand,? Australia,? Thailand,? Indonesia?and?Uzbekistan?to?share?experiences?and?to?build?a?collective?understanding?of?what? constitutes?a?good?quality?adult?education?program?for?indigenous?peoples.? Discussions?were? informed? by? a? broader? ASPBAE? Quality? Adult? Education? Framework,? which? had?its?origins?in?discussions?held?in?2009.?The?Core?of?the?Framework?is?grounded?on?ASPBAE’s? commitment? to? education? as? a? right,? adult? education? for? transformation,?and?adult?and?basic? education? as? integral? and? inter‐connected? components? of? the? vision? of? lifelong? learning? (Guevara,?2010).?Other?frameworks?promoted?by?ASPBAE?for?education?to?be?empowering,?pro‐ poor,?gender?just?and?sustainable?were?also?important?considerations.? The?2010?gat