Full Description
The case studies compiled in Another Way: Decentralization, Democratization and the Global Politics of Community-Based Schooling offer a comparative look at how the global politics of educational decentralization have influenced the democratic aspirations of diverse community-based schooling initiatives in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas.
Contents
Foreword: Community Organizing and Educational Justice: From Local Struggles to a Global Movement
Mark R. Warren
Acknowledgements
List of Acronyms
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction: Community-Based Schooling and the Intersectional Politics of Decentralization and Democratization
Kai Heidemann and Rebecca Clothey
2. Social Movement-Led Democratic Governance of Public Education: The Case of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement
Rebecca Tarlau
3. Crisis, Protest and Democratization 'From Below': The Rise of a Community-Based Schooling Movement in Argentina
Kai Heidemann
4. Accountability through Community-Based Management? Implications from the Local Level Implementation in El Salvador of a Globally-Popular Model
D. Brent Edwards Jr.
5. Decentralization, Centralization and Minority Education in Hungary
Andria D. Timmer
6. Decentralization and Education in Tanzania: The Role of Community Schools and Education for the Poor
Serena Koissaba
7. Between State and Society: Community Schools in Zambia
Richard Bamattre
8. Building a Community-Based Charter School in the United States
Rebecca Clothey and Deanna Hill
9. An Alternative Education Model in Urumqi
Rebecca Clothey
10. School of Feminism in Beijing: Embodied Resistance and "Weak" Education in Twenty-First-Century China
Weiling Deng
Index
