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Radical childhoods : schooling and the struggle for social change /

Education has long been central to the struggle for radical social change. Yet, as social class inequalities sustain and deepen, it is increasingly difficult to conceptualise and understand the possibility for 'emancipatory' education. In 'Radical Childhoods' Jessica Gerrard take...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gerrard, Jessica (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Radical education, childhood and social change
  • 1. Introduction : radical education, past and present
  • 2. Children's education and the struggle for social change
  • part II. Socialist Sunday schools, 1892-1930
  • 3. 'Waken, children, waken! Justice be your aim!' : the creation of a children's socialist movement and the 'religion of socialism'
  • 4. 'For the workers' battles are our battles' : challenges and critiques, internationalism and women's work
  • part III. Black Saturday schools, 1967-90
  • 5. 'Give them pride in their blackness' : the emergence of the Black Saturday School movement and real and imagined black educational communities
  • 6. 'We are our own educators!' : black educational authority, gender and community control
  • part IV. Conclusion
  • 7. Radical childhoods and the struggle over education.