Education plays a very important role in breaking the cycle of poverty and increasing opportunity. Various forms of social movements play an important role in providing educational opportunities to communities and social groups that might otherwise be excluded, filling the gap left by the state. This book critically examines the origin and outcome of social action for education in different parts of the world.
Education plays a very important role in breaking the cycle of poverty and increasing opportunity. Various forms of social movements play an important role in providing educational opportunities to communities and social groups that might otherwise be excluded, filling the gap left by the state. This book critically examines the origin and outcome of social action for education in different parts of the world.
KAMARULZAMAN ASKANDAR Department of Research and Education for Peace, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia ROLAND KOSTIC Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden SUDHA PAI School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India YOGINDER S. SIKAND Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, University of Leiden, The Netherlands LARRY SWATUK Department of Political Studies, University of Botswana, Botswana CONSUELO URIBE Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Columbia DONN C. WORGS Department of Political Science, Towson University, USA
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Acknowledgements Contributors Acronyms Introduction: Knowledge, Identity and Power - Education Movements in the Global South; A.Swain Food for Starved Minds: The Mobilization of African Americans for Education; D.C.Worgs Education Movements, Power and Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina; R.Kostic Universal Elementary Education in India: An Exploratory Study of Movements in Civil Society; S.Pai Muslim Madrasas in Contemporary South Asia; Y.S.Sikand Education among Indigenous Peoples from Colombia and Peru: Social Movement or Public Policy?; C.Uribe Education as an Agenda of Social Action in Malaysia: The Search for Unity in a Plural Society; K.Askandar Social Movements and the 'Education Revolution' in Post-apartheid South Africa; L.A.Swatuk Conclusions: Social Action for Education, the State and the Global Network; A.Swain Notes References Index
Foreword Acknowledgements Contributors Acronyms Introduction: Knowledge, Identity and Power - Education Movements in the Global South; A.Swain Food for Starved Minds: The Mobilization of African Americans for Education; D.C.Worgs Education Movements, Power and Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina; R.Kostic Universal Elementary Education in India: An Exploratory Study of Movements in Civil Society; S.Pai Muslim Madrasas in Contemporary South Asia; Y.S.Sikand Education among Indigenous Peoples from Colombia and Peru: Social Movement or Public Policy?; C.Uribe Education as an Agenda of Social Action in Malaysia: The Search for Unity in a Plural Society; K.Askandar Social Movements and the 'Education Revolution' in Post-apartheid South Africa; L.A.Swatuk Conclusions: Social Action for Education, the State and the Global Network; A.Swain Notes References Index
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