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Download or read book Learning and Social Difference written by Peter Mayo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring how global changes affect education today, in the classroom and in local, national, and international contexts, this book explores the future of education's capacity for effectiveness in multicultural and multilingual contexts. The chapters deal with lifelong learning (a critique), immigration, antiracist education, parental involvement in schools, national curricula, Paulo Freire's legacy, insights from the work of Lorenzo Milani and the School of Barbiana, and Gramsci's writings on the school. There are both theoretical and empirically grounded chapters in this volume.