Caroline Dyer is Reader in Education in Development at the University of Leeds, U.K. She specialises in aspects of basic education in South Asia, and has a long-standing interest in the educational inclusion of ethnic minorities, particularly mobile communities.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Education for Nomadic Peoples: an Urgent ChallengeCaroline DyerChapter 1. Education and Development for Nomads: the Issues and the EvidenceSaverio Krätli with Caroline DyerChapter 2. Educational Services and Nomadic Groups in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and UgandaRoy Carr-HillChapter 3. The Acquisition of Manners, Morals and Knowledge: Growing into and out of Bakkarwal SocietyAparna RaoChapter 4. Learning to Wander, Wandering Learners: Education and the Peripatetic Karretjie People of the South African KarooMichael de Jongh and Riana SteynChapter 5. Changes in Education as Hunters and Gatherers Settle: Pitjantjatjara Education in South AustraliaBill Edwards and Bruce UnderwoodChapter 6. Cultural Roots of Poverty? Education and Pastoral Livelihood in Turkana and KaramojaSaverio KrätliChapter 7. Bedouin Arabs in Israel: Education, Political Control and Social ChangeIsmael Abu-SaadChapter 8. With God’s Grace and with Education, We Will Find a Way: Literacy, Education and the Rabaris of Kutch, IndiaCaroline Dyer and Archana ChoksiChapter 9. The Qashqa’i, Formal Education, and the Indigenous EducatorsMohammad ShahbaziChapter 10. Education and Pastoralism in MongoliaDemberel and Helen PennChapter 11. Boarding Schools for Mobile People: the Harasiis in the Sultanate of OmanDawn ChattyChapter 12. Adult Literacy and Teacher Education in a Community Education Programme in NigeriaJuliet McCaffery, Kayode Sanni, Chimah Ezeomah and Jason PennellsAfterwordNotes on ContributorsIndex