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The article focuses on the role of stories and literature of culture in building peace and society development. It presents three traditional tales that affirm the capacity of literature not only to build peace and development, but also to integrate the insights of the people regarding their understanding on the role of conflict and how it should be addressed. It is concluded that literary culture is a valuable tool to promote social consciousness, intercultural dialogue and understanding.

In this article, we examine adult education literature as it relates to all aspects of popular culture. After an extensive literature review we found that, increasingly, adult educators are investigating popular culture's connection with adult education and learning; however, we argue that much more work needs to be done in this area, specifically with regard to what and how adults are learning from popular culture. The research revealed that the adult education literature in this broad area has focused on six areas of research and practice: (a) representations of adult learning and adult development in popular media, (b) self-reflexive practices of adult educators who consume popular culture, (c) effective classroom practices involving the popular, (d) analyses of popular culture products and processes as adult education curriculum, (e) the impact of adults' learning from popular culture, and (I) community-based "popular" culture as resistance. This article explores the literature in each of these six areas of inquiry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]