Widening Access to Education as Social Justice: Essays in Honor of Michael Omolewa

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Michael Omolewa\'s advocacy of widening access to education....Pages 3-22
Widening access by bringing education home....Pages 23-43
Access to education: a global perspective....Pages 44-68
Conceptualizing the widening of access to education as social justice....Pages 69-82
Education, law, and social justice....Pages 83-94
Globalization and state socialism: end of illusions or new educational opportunities?....Pages 95-110
Front Matter....Pages 112-112
Widening participation for social justice: poverty and access to education....Pages 113-126
HIV/AIDS as a depleting factor in widening access to education....Pages 127-138
The dialectics of poverty, educational opportunities, and ICTs....Pages 139-148
UNESCO policies and conferences: widening access to education to further social justice....Pages 149-164
Universalizing access to basic education: UNESCO\'s normative action....Pages 165-190
Front Matter....Pages 192-192
Reaching the unreached learner: lifelong learning, adult and community education in Victoria, Austra....Pages 193-207
Access and participation issues in New Zealand Adult, Community, and Tertiary Education....Pages 208-226
The United States\' \"No Child Left Behind Act\" and its implications for widening access to education....Pages 227-244
Towards comparative equality but persisting inequality in relation to the ambitions of Swedish education....Pages 245-261
Problems and prospects of access to education in China....Pages 262-280
Contexts and challenges of widening access to education in Japan....Pages 281-292
Social justice and access to education: a case study of Pakistan....Pages 293-304
Opportunities and challenges of widening access to education: adult education in Botswana....Pages 305-328
Access and equal opportunity in higher education in the United States: the effects of education and public finance policies....Pages 329-353
Front Matter....Pages 356-356
From exclusion to participation in English higher education....Pages 357-368
African school curriculum as a front on which to widen access to education....Pages 369-379
Educational access for girls: the case of Kano State of Nigeria....Pages 380-393
Widening access to university education in Nigeria: the Open University option....Pages 394-403
Mature age entry and widening access to university education: a Southern African perspective....Pages 404-426
Access to basic education for girls: the Nigerian experience....Pages 427-438
Front Matter....Pages 440-440
Widening access to education in the era of globalization: future policy thrusts....Pages 441-463
Widening access to education in the era of globalization: future research thrusts....Pages 464-472