Education As Social Action

Download or read book Education as Social Action written by A. Swain and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education plays a very important role in breaking the cycle of poverty and increasing opportunity. Various forms of social movements play an important role in providing 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.