Education, Poverty, Malnutrition and Famine

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.

List 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

Product details

• Authors: Colin Brock, Lorraine Pe Symaco, Symaco Lorraine Pe
• Assisted by: Colin Brock (Editor), Dr Lorraine Pe (Zhejiang University Symaco (Editor), Lorraine Symaco (Editor), Lorraine Pe Symaco (Editor), Colin Brock (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2014
• EAN: 9781472511584
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-1158-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Education as a Humanitarian Response; Education as a Humanitarian Re; Education as a Humanitarian Re; Education as a Humanitarian Response
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, Moral and social purpose of education, Multicultural education, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy