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• 1. I should like to express my gratitude to my friend, Carmel Borg, for commenting on an earlier draft of the paper. I should equally like to thank another friend, Godfrey Baldacchino, for engaging with me in discussions on some of the issues on microstates raised in this paper. The paper was originally published in Maurice Taylor & Rene Bedard (eds) Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (May, 1992) College of Education, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada. It is now being published with some important modifications.
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