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Escaping Education: Living as Learning within Grassroots Cultures. Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education, Vol. 36

This book challenges the modern certainty that education is a universal good and a human right and celebrates the well-being still enjoyed in the commons and cultures of people living at the grassroots. The first section describes how education is an instrument of acculturation. Within two generations of formal schooling, people are separated from their language and culture and are dependent upon Western culture's "rights" and the rewards of the market economy that can only be obtained through further education.

• Author/Creator: Prakash, Madhu Suri, Esteva, Gustavo
• Author's address: Peter Lang Publishing, 275 Seventh Ave., 28th Floor, New York, NY 10001; Tel: 800-770-5264 ($22.95).
• Date Published: 00-00
• Year: 1998

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Community
• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Educators
• Subject: Culture Conflict
• Subject: Educational Philosophy
• Subject: Indigenous Populations
• Subject: Nonformal Education
• Subject: World Views

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