Escaping Education: Living as Learning within Grassroots Cultures (Counterpoints)

By Madhu Suri Prakash and Gustavo Esteva

Escaping Education challenges the modern certainty that education is a universal good and a human right. It opens doors to alternative landscapes of learning and living that still flourish at the grassroots, within the cultures of the uneducated, the undereducated, and the illiterate who constitute the social majorities or the Two-Thirds World. It celebrates the richness of their traditions, their pluriverse of commons, common sense, and communal teaching, keeping at bay the modern reign of homo oeconomicus and homo educandus . Standing the all-too-familiar tale of education on its head, it joins the regeneration of soil cultures, resisting cultural meltdown in the global classroom.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820433276
• ISBN13: 9780820433271
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Length: 147 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Escaping Education and Madhu changed my life

If you are a teacher, or a student, you will want to read this book. Madhu Prakash was the most amazing teacher that I have ever had, and her classes changed my life. This book will make you think about the importance of what we in the United States call education, and its appropriateness in other countries. It is a read that you will want to make many times. Enjoy!