Education and Social Justice

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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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.

• Diversity
• Gender
• education
• education reform
• educational research
• quality
• university

• 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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