| Publication |
Toronto, Annick Press, 2016.
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| Description |
viii, 168pBlack spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
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.
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| Contents |
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
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| Standard Number |
9781554517978 Pb.
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