Widening Access to Education as Social Justice

Cover -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Part I:Foundational issues -- CH 1. Michael Omolewa's advocacy of widening access to education -- CH 2. Widening access by bringing education home -- CH 3. Access to education: a global perspective -- CH 4. Conceptualizing the widening of access to education as social justice -- CH 5. Education, law, and social justice -- CH 6. Globalization and state socialism: end of illusions or new educational opportunities? -- Part II:Overviews -- CH 7. Widening participation for social justice: poverty and access to education -- CH 8. HIV/AIDS as a depleting factor in widening access to education -- CH 9. The dialectics of poverty, educational opportunities, and ICTs -- CH 10. UNESCO policies and conferences: widening access to education to further social justice -- CH 11. Universalizing access to basic education: UNESCO's normative action -- Part III:National case studies -- CH 12. Reaching the unreached learner: lifelong learning, adult and community education in Victoria, Australia -- CH 13. Access and participation issues in New Zealand Adult, Community, and Tertiary Education -- CH 14. The United States' "No Child Left Behind Act" and its implications for widening access to education -- CH 15. Towards comparative equality but persisting inequality in relation to the ambitions of Swedish education -- CH 16. Problems and prospects of access to education in China -- CH 17. Contexts and challenges of widening access to education in Japan -- CH 18. Social justice and access to education: a case study of Pakistan -- CH 19. Opportunities and challenges of widening access to education: adult education in Botswana -- CH 20. Access and equal opportunity in higher education in the United States: the effects of education and public finance policies -- Part IV:Illustrative and special cases -- CH 21. From exclusion to participation in English higher education -- CH 22. African school curriculum as a front on which to widen access to education -- CH 23. Educational access for girls: the case of Kano State of Nigeria -- CH 24. Widening access to university education in Nigeria: the Open University option -- CH 25. Mature age entry and widening access to university education: a Southern African perspective -- CH 26. Access to basic education for girls: the Nigerian experience -- Part V:Future directions -- CH 27. Widening access to education in the era of globalization: future policy thrusts -- CH 28. Widening access to education in the era of globalization: future research thrusts -- Subject Index -- Author Index -- Last Page.