Timor-Leste, one of the world’s newest countries, gained its independence in 2002, after a protracted national liberation struggle against occupying Indonesian military forces and a brief period of United Nations rule. In 2006, the first independence government initiated a national adult literacy campaign, with the support of a team of Cuban advisers, who brought with them a literacy teaching model, known internationally by its Spanish name Yo, Si Puedo! (Trans: Yes, I Can!). By the time the campaign officially concluded, in December 2012, it had reached over 200, 000 people. This chapter draws on evidence collected during an in-country participatory action research evaluation of this campaign to discuss the contribution of popular education to post-conflict peacebuilding and development.
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Boughton, B. (2017). Timor-leste: Adult literacy, popular education and post-conflict peacebuilding. In The Palgrave International Handbook on Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning (pp. 629–647). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55783-4_32
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