Overview

Education, Poverty, Malnutrition and Famine provides an overview of education response – what it is and how it can be improved in relation to one of the more persistent issues globally. Poverty, famine and/or malnutrition exist in variant degrees among developing and developed nations and the issue figures prominently in international development. This book provides a global overview of education and such issues through case study samples of countries within various regions and offers insights and proposes solutions on how educational response can help alleviate this challenge. Each chapter contains contemporary questions to encourage active engagement with the material and an annotated list of suggested reading to support further exploration.

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Author:   Dr Lorraine Pe Symaco (Zhejiang University, China) ,  Dr Colin Brock (University of Durham, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Edition:   annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.441kg
ISBN:  

9781472511584

ISBN 10:   1472511581
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   19 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Notes On Contributors Series Editor's Preface Education, Poverty, Malnutrition and Famine: An Overview, Lorraine Pe Symaco (CRICE, University of Malaya, Malaysia) 1. Education and Poverty Alleviation in Eastern Africa - The Causal Links, Roderick Hicks (Africa Educational Trust, UK/Kenya) 2. Understanding 'Education for All' in Contexts of Extreme Poverty: Experiences from Burkina Faso, Guillaume Charvon (ATD Fourth World, Burkina Faso), Elaine Chase (University of Oxford, UK) 3. Access to Education, Poverty, Malnutrition and Health in Bangladesh, Benjamin Zeitlyn (University of Sussex, UK) and Altaf Hossain (IED-BRAC University, Bangladesh) 4. The Impact of the Haitian Earthquake on a Fragile Education System, Helena Murseli (UNICEF, Haiti), Naoko Imoto (Japan International Cooperation Agency) 5. Education, Hunger and Malnutrition in the Indian Context, T. Sundararaman (National Health Systems Resource Centre, India), Anupama Hazarika (National Health Systems Resource Centre, India) 6. Education and Poverty in the Philippines, Lorraine Pe Symaco (CRICE, University of Malaya, Malaysia) 7. Schools, Poverty and Hunger in the UK, Rys Farthing, (University of Oxford, UK) 8. Food Insecurity, Hunger, Nutrition and Education in the USA, Nalini Asha Biggs (University of California San Diego, USA) and Yael Friemann (Centre for Development, Environment and Policy USA) Index

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Lorraine Pe Symaco is Director of the Centre for Research in International and Comparative Education (CRICE) at the University of Malaya, Malaysia.

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