ID | 024696 |
Call Number | 306.43/SCA |
Title Proper | Fight to learn: the struggle to go to school |
Language | ENG |
Author | Scandiffio, Laura |
Publication | Toronto, Annick Press, 2016. |
Description | viii, 168p Black spine |
Note | In many countries around the world, universal access to education is a seemingly unattainable dream; however, determined individuals with vision and drive have made this dream come true for many. This book highlights people such as Okello, a former child soldier in Uganda, who founded a school for children like himself whose education was derailed by war; Julia Bolton Holloway who realized that the only effective way to educate Roma children was to teach literacy to their parents at the same time; Shannen Koostachin, a passionate 13-year-old whose fight for the right of First Nations children to have proper schools endured even after her untimely death. These uplifting stories of people who were undeterred in their fight to bring education to children will leave young readers with excellent models of how to mobilize support when fighting for social justice. |
Note | Poverty Child Workers The Boy with a School in His Backyard The Roma Alphabets, Chisels, and Cradles: A Family School for Roma Taking Roma Learning Online "Every Child in School" Discrimination Gender: Girls in the Muslim World The Other Malalas Sharing the Knowledge that Changes Lives Caste Outcasts from Learning: Teaching the Untouchables Violence Gangs Caught in the Crossfire War Forced into Battle Protest Movements Equal Schools Shannen Koostachin: The Right to a "Real School" Affordable Schools Education for All: Chile's Student Protest |
Standard Number | 9781554517978 |
Price. Qualification | $14.95(Pb) |
Classification Number | 306.43 |
Key Words | Right to education ; Poverty ; UOI - Rights and responsibilities ; Lexile 990L ; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ; Caste system ; Education - Social aspects ; Gender discrimination |