Growing Together: Women, Feminism and Popular Education Produced by: Isis International and Network for Women and Popular Education of the Latin American Council on Adult Education Translated and edited by: Rachael Kamel Lay-out by: Rosa Balmaccda We would like to thank the various women's groups and organizations which have generously lent us photographs for this book.

Increasingly, people's movements everywhere are finding that education is a crucial part of their attempts to empower disenfranchised groups in the political, economic, social and cultural arenas. Such efforts may term themselves popular education, non-formal education, or adult education. What they have in common is an emphasis on starting from experiences of their participants and the conviction that education is a tool to help transform the world into a community of greater justice, peace and freedom from poverty and oppression.

In this decade, feminists and women's groups in many places - above all in Latin America - have begun to carry the struggle for women's empowerment into the popular education movement. Their efforts go beyond a critique of the shortcomings of popular education in its neglect gender issues. They are working to combine the strengths of feminism and popular education.

These experiences are particularly rich in Latin America. This book, produced by the Women's Network of the Latin American Council on Adult Education (CEAAL) and Isis International, brings together some of these experiences of grassroots groups and educators in the region.

ISBN No. 88-85840-02-7