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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsForeword: 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
