Introduction: Knowledge, identity and power : education movements in the global South -- Food for starved minds : the mobilization of African-Americans for education -- Education movements, power and identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Universal elementary education in India : an exploratory study of movements in civil society -- Muslim madrasas in contemporary South Asia -- Education among indigenous peoples from Colombia and Peru : social movement or public policy? -- Education as an agenda of social action in Malaysia : the search for unity in a plural society -- Social movements and the "education revolution" in postApartheid South Africa -- Conclusion: Social action for education, the State and the global network.

xviii, 257 p.

Copyright: UNRISD 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-241) and index.

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