Introduction: social justice, educaiton, & the third world / Timothy J. Scrase -- pt. 1. Problems & issues -- Education for development & social justice in the Third World / M.K. Bacchus -- Education, global Fordism, & the demise of social justice in the Third World / John Martino -- Metaphors of educational development: an analysis of information flow between cultures / Christine Fox -- Education & national unity: Toward the sociocultural integration of ethnic minorities / Ibrahim Alladin -- pt. 2. Case studies -- Doing justice: Education & gender relations in Africa / Lynn Davies -- Social justice & the micropolitics of schooling in India / Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase -- A Caribbean experiment in education for social justice: the case of Grenada / Anne Hickling-Hudson -- Social justice & education in China / Ronald F. Price -- Arab women & social justice: Redistributive-based educational & employment opportunities (1970-1990) / Khadiga M. Safwat -- Education & social justice in South America / Carlos Marin.
Summary
A collection of ten essays advocating the important link between social justice and education and pointing out the threats posed to both by internal policy and budgeting.