Learning and Social Difference

Exploring how global changes affect education today in the classroom and in local national and international contexts this book explores the future of education's capacity for effectiveness in multicultural and multilingual contexts. The chapters deal with lifelong learning (a critique) immigration antiracist education parental involvement in schools national curricula Paulo Freire's legacy insights from the work of Lorenzo Milani and the School of Barbiana and Gramsci's writings on the school. There are both theoretical and empirically grounded chapters in this volume.