Beyond the rhetoric of empowerment: Speak the language, live the experience of the rural poor

International Review of Education

Volumn 52, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 323-332

  Lekoko, Rebecca Nthogo ^a   van der Merwe, Marietjie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33646802237     PISSN: 00208566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11159-006-0010-0     Document Type: Article

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