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Book Synopsis Educational provision for nomadic peoples is a highly complex, as well as controversial and emotive, issue. For centuries, nomadic peoples educated their children by passing on from generation to generation the socio-cultural and economic knowledge required to pursue their traditional occupations. But over the last few decades, nomadic peoples have had to contend with rapid changes to their ways of life, often as a consequence of global patterns of development that are highly unsympathetic to spatially mobile groups. The need to provide modern education for nomadic groups is evident and urgent to all those concerned with achieving Education For All; yet how they can be included is highly controversial. This volume provides a series of international case studies, prefaced by a comprehensive literature review and concluding with an end note drawing themes together, that sets out key issues in relation to educational services for nomadic groups around the world.
Table of Contents List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Education for Nomadic Peoples: an Urgent Challenge
Caroline Dyer
Chapter 1. Education and Development for Nomads: the Issues and the Evidence
Saverio Krätli with Caroline Dyer
Chapter 2. Educational Services and Nomadic Groups in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Roy Carr-Hill
Chapter 3. The Acquisition of Manners, Morals and Knowledge: Growing into and out of Bakkarwal Society
Aparna Rao
Chapter 4. Learning to Wander, Wandering Learners: Education and the Peripatetic Karretjie People of the South African Karoo
Michael de Jongh and Riana Steyn
Chapter 5. Changes in Education as Hunters and Gatherers Settle: Pitjantjatjara Education in South Australia
Bill Edwards and Bruce Underwood
Chapter 6. Cultural Roots of Poverty? Education and Pastoral Livelihood in Turkana and Karamoja
Saverio Krätli
Chapter 7. Bedouin Arabs in Israel: Education, Political Control and Social Change
Ismael Abu-Saad
Chapter 8. With God’s Grace and with Education, We Will Find a Way: Literacy, Education and the Rabaris of Kutch, India
Caroline Dyer and Archana Choksi
Chapter 9. The Qashqa’i, Formal Education, and the Indigenous Educators
Mohammad Shahbazi
Chapter 10. Education and Pastoralism in Mongolia
Demberel and Helen Penn
Chapter 11. Boarding Schools for Mobile People: the Harasiis in the Sultanate of Oman
Dawn Chatty
Chapter 12. Adult Literacy and Teacher Education in a Community Education Programme in Nigeria
Juliet McCaffery, Kayode Sanni, Chimah Ezeomah and Jason Pennells
Afterword
Notes on Contributors
Index
