Education plays a very important role in breaking the cycle of poverty and increasing opportunity and various social movements provide 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.
Author(s): Ashok Swain
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 272
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Contributors......Page 13
Acronyms......Page 14
Education: Source of knowledge; manufacturer of identity......Page 20
Global initiative on education......Page 23
Working together with civil society......Page 27
Social movements for education: Origin and organization......Page 29
Organization of the book......Page 33
2 Food for Starved Minds: The Mobilization of African-Americans for Education......Page 39
Why mobilize for education?......Page 40
African-American communities mobilizing for education: A recurring phenomenon......Page 44
Contemporary mobilizations for education in African-American communities......Page 60
Conclusion......Page 68
Epilogue......Page 70
3 Education Movements, Power and Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina......Page 71
Communal identity and education in Bosnia and Herzegovina......Page 72
Private education in Bosnia and Herzegovina......Page 80
Conclusion......Page 92
4 Universal Elementary Education in India: An Exploratory Study of Movements in Civil Society......Page 94
Analysing social movements in India......Page 95
State failure in providing UEE: A background......Page 99
Changing social attitudes and movements/initiatives in civil society for UEE......Page 106
National Alliance for Fundamental Elementary Education (NAFRE)......Page 109
NGOs in partnership with the state......Page 112
Alternative private initiatives......Page 116
Conclusion......Page 120
5 Muslim Madrasas in Contemporary South Asia......Page 124
The origins of the madrasa in Muslim society......Page 125
Madrasa education in South Asia......Page 126
Madrasas in present-day South Asia......Page 130
Islamic education in South Asia today......Page 133
Student life at traditional madrasas......Page 139
Management of the madrasa......Page 140
Government-assisted madrasas......Page 142
Changes in the madrasa system......Page 143
Madrasas for girls: A new development......Page 146
Conclusion......Page 148
6 Education among Indigenous Peoples from Colombia and Peru: Social Movement or Public Policy?......Page 151
Educational policies and indigenous peoples......Page 153
The state of basic education in Colombia and Peru......Page 155
The indigenous peoples of Peru and Colombia......Page 156
Land reform in Peru and Colombia......Page 159
Peasant and indigenous mobilization......Page 162
Indigenous mobilization in Colombia since the 1960s......Page 163
The indigenous movement in Peru since the 1960s......Page 167
Education policies for indigenous peoples in Colombia......Page 170
Educational policy for indigenous peoples in Peru......Page 171
Conclusion......Page 173
Appendix: Indigenous organizations......Page 174
7 Education as an Agenda of Social Action in Malaysia: The Search for Unity in a Plural Society......Page 178
Pre-independence plural educational system......Page 180
Educational Policy Adjustment in the Days Leading to Independence......Page 184
Education as social action: Creating national unity......Page 186
The New Economic Policy (NEP)......Page 188
Continuing the search for national unity: The vision school and the English language debate......Page 190
Conclusion......Page 194
8 Social Movements and the "Education Revolution" in Postapartheid South Africa......Page 197
Education, power and identity......Page 198
How "South" is South Africa?......Page 199
Future imperfect: Social movements and Bantu education policy......Page 201
Soweto, politicization and people's education......Page 205
The landscape of social movements in the postapartheid moment......Page 207
Past present: The consequences of apartheid-era education......Page 210
Postapartheid reforms......Page 212
Back to the future? A provisional assessment......Page 216
Future imperfect: Social movements new and old......Page 217
Conclusion......Page 222
9 Conclusion: Social Action for Education, the State and the Global Network......Page 224
Significance of the state......Page 228
Global network......Page 230
Formulating the policy well......Page 232
Notes......Page 234
References......Page 246
B......Page 261
C......Page 262
E......Page 264
F......Page 265
I......Page 266
K......Page 267
M......Page 268
N......Page 269
P......Page 270
R......Page 271
S......Page 272
U......Page 274
W......Page 275
Z......Page 276
