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Title Education as social action : knowledge, identity, and power / edited by Ashok Swain
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2005]
©2005

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Description xviii, 257 pages ; 23 cm
regular print
Contents 1. Introduction : knowledge, identity and power - education movements in the global south -- 2. Food for starved minds : the mobilization of African-Americans for education -- 3. Education movements, power and identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 4. Universal elementary education in India : an exploratory study of movements in civil society -- 5. Muslim madrasas in contemporary South Asia -- 6. Education among indigenous peoples from Colombia and Peru : social movement or public policy? -- 7. Education as an agenda of social action in Malaysia : the search for unity in a plural society -- 8. Social movements and the "education revolution" in postapartheid South Africa -- 9. Conclusion : social action for education, the state and the global network
Summary "This edited volume evaluates the relevance of the dominant theoretical discourse to understand the origin and outcome of the social actions for education undertaken in various regions of the world."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-241) and index
Subject Education -- Aims and objectives.
Affirmation action programs in education
Popular education -- Cross-cultural studies.
Educational equalization -- Cross-cultural studies.
Basic education -- Cross-cultural studies.
Author Swain, Ashok.
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development.
LC no. 2004063614
ISBN 9781403949141 hardback
140394914X hardback