Peter Mayo is Professor in Sociology of Education and Adult Education at the University of Malta, Malta. He is the series editor of Bloomsbury Critical Education. Paolo Vittoria is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at Federico II University of Naples, Italy.

• Series Editor's ForewordForeword, João M. Paraskeva1. Introduction: Critical Education in International PerspectivesPart I: Education, Markets and Alternatives2. Lifelong Education/Learning: An Alternative Critical Approach3. Philosophy of Differences and Social Creation: Anna Maria Piussi and Antonia De VitaPart II: A Critical Reading of the World4. Gabriela Mistral: Poet of Education5. Lorenzo Milani and the Schools of San Donato and Sant’Andrea a Barbiana6. Ada Gobetti: Education for Resistance and Reconstruction7. Paulo Freire, Globalisation and Emancipatory EducationPart II: Education and Migration8. Towards an Anti-Racist Education and Human Solidarity in the Mediterranean and In the Context of Migrations9. Hegemony, Migration and Misplaced Alliances. Lessons from Antonio GramsciPart IV: Popular Education, Social Movements and the Struggle for Independence10. Amilcar Cabral and Paulo Freire: The Struggle for Independence and Popular Education in Guinea Bissau, with Amilcar Araujo Pereira11. Julius K. Nyerere’s Signposts for a Postcolonial Education12. Social Movements and Critical Education in Brazil: From the Origins of Popular Education to the Struggle for Democratisation, with Roberto LeherEpilogueReferences Index

While acknowledging that knowledge plays a central role, social movement studies have been slow to reflect on the ways in which it is produced and transmitted. Focusing on critical education, this precious volume helps us understand the role and challenges of an alternative pedagogy.