Transformative Learning on the Desert’s Edge: The Tostan FGM Program in Senegal, Mali and the Sudan

Peter Easton; Kristen Molyneaux

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Transformative Learning on the Desert’s Edge: The Tostan FGM Program in Senegal, Mali and the Sudan

Authors

- Peter Easton
- Kristen Molyneaux
- Florida State University

Abstract

This paper examines strategies of the Tostan Village Empowerment Program in Senegal for promoting abandonment of female genital mutilation as an example of transformative learning; and it draws lessons for the refinement of that theory.

Keywords: Empowerment, transformative learning, female genital mutilation

How to Cite: Easton, P. & Molyneaux, K. (2006) “Transformative Learning on the Desert’s Edge: The Tostan FGM Program in Senegal, Mali and the Sudan”, Adult Education Research Conference. 1(2006).