Abstract
In this chapter, the authors discuss adult education in relation to the power structures of Latin American societies, emphasizing its role in the promotion of social justice. Of particular interest are the developments within the popular education movement since the middle of the last century, when a distinctive understanding of popular education grew out of the educational work with adults. In the meantime, a breach emerged between adult (and youth) education and popular education, largely due to the integration of adult education as a modality within the institutionalized education system. In the first part of the chapter, we revisit a period in Brazilian and Latin American history (1950s and 1960s) that was filled with a great and rich variety of experiences of popular empowerment that ended up in repressive military regimes. The second section discusses how adult education became largely identified with the liberation movement and the third section is dedicated to some recent developments, arguing for a desirable and necessary dialogue between contemporary adult education and popular education.
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