Contents Preface 1 Moving towards a literate environmentSugan Bhatia 2 Adult education as liberationAmrik Singh 3 Liberation from cultural disadvantageV Eswara Reddy 4 Literacy in village settingsR Jayagopal 5 Mass media in rural developmentBhalachandra Phadke 6 Media and rural developmentP Sandeep 7 Women?s empowerment as people?s empowermentMadhuri R Shah 8 Vocational continuing educationR Parthasarathy 9 Roots of extension in universitiesJai Prakash Dubey 10 Continuing education at the IIT MumbaiSC Jhansi 11 Population EducationSugan Bhatia Appendices Index The volume of papers touches some main concerns of the Extension system in the Universities in India These include Literacy Adult Education Continuing Education Womens Studies and Population Education The scholars have looked at both the conceptual moorings of these concerns as also the programmatic concerns Central to all the papers are social constructs like the individual learners group of learners community of learners development with justice communication and market needs Another central concern reflected in all the papers is the belief that education as an all-encompassing term envisages an active learner-participant a teacher as a facilitator-cum-learner and the learning environment that encourages description-analysis-inferential moves 150 pp.