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Education and Social Justice

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Joseph Zajda

    1. School of Education, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne Campus), Fitzroy, Australia

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  2. Suzanne Majhanovich

    1. Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

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  3. Val Rust

    1. Social Sciences and Comparative Education, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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  • Explores conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches applicable in the research of the State, educational equality and social justice in education globally
  • Examines central discourses surrounding the debate of education and social justice
  • Illustrates how the relationship between the State and education policy affects current models and trends in education and social justice
  • Demonstrates ideological imperatives of equality of educational opportunity and social justice
  • Evaluates the ambivalent and problematic relationship between the State, education and social justice globally

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Education and Social Justice: Issues of Liberty and Equality in the Global Culture

    • Joseph Zajda, Suzanne Majhanovich, Val Rust
    Pages 1-12

  3. Education for All and the New Development Compact

    • Karen Mundy
    Pages 13-38

  4. If Only My Eyes Were Different: The Loss of Identity and the Underutilization of Black Children's Educational Potential—Rethinking Assimilation and Social Justice

    • Kassie Freeman
    Pages 39-55

  5. Freedom's Children: a Gender Perspective on the Education of the Learner Citizen

    • Madeleine Arnot
    Pages 57-77

  6. Cultural Diversity as Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization: The Emergence of a Global Movement and Convention

    • Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien
    Pages 79-95

  7. L'apprentissage Précoce des Langues: des Pratiques Sociologiquement et Politiquement Marquees

    • Dominique Groux
    Pages 97-113

  8. Educational Decentralization, Public Spending, and Social Justice in Nigeria

    • Macleans Geo-JaJa
    Pages 115-138

  9. Social Justice and Gender in Chinese Higher Education: Regional Issues of Equity and Access

    • W. James Jacob
    Pages 139-159

  10. The University for Older Adults: on Cuba's Universalization of the University

    • Clara Lig Long Rangel, Antonia Zenaida Sánchez Proenza
    Pages 161-173

  11. Quality and Equity in Early Childhood Care in Peru

    • Regina Moromizato Izu
    Pages 175-189

  12. Cultural Complexity, Postcolonial Perspectives, and Educational Change: Challenges for Comparative Educators

    • Anne Hickling-Hudson
    Pages 191-208

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 209-217
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About this book

Education and Social Justice presents up-to-date scholarly research on global l and comparative trends in education, social justice and policy research. It provides an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern in the field of social justice, globalisation, and policy research. Above all, the book offers the latest findings to the critical issues in education and social justice. Education and Social Justice is a sourcebook of ideas for researchers, practitioners and policy makers in education, and social justice. It offers a timely overview of current changes in and social justice. It provides directions in education, social justice, and policy research, relevant to transformational educational reforms in the st t 21 century. The book explores the problematic relationship between education, social justice and the State, against the background of comparative education research. Social justice is an attempt to answer the following pressing question: How can we contribute to the creation of a more equitable, respectful, and just society for everyone? The creation of a more equitable, respectful, and just society for everyone is a dream for all concerned citizens on spaceship Earth, be they democratic policy makers, empowering and egalitarian pedagogues, and others, who believe in much needed reform.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Education, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne Campus), Fitzroy, Australia

    Joseph Zajda

  • Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

    Suzanne Majhanovich

  • Social Sciences and Comparative Education, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    Val Rust

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