Life Chances, Education and Social Movements

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A study of how education and social movements can enhance the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups.

Life Chances, Education and Social Movementsdwells on the necessity of education and social movements for enhancing the life chances of individuals and disadvantaged groups respectively. Ralf Dahrendorf's work on life chances and social conflict is used to support the theoretical and empirical arguments in the book.

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Knowledge is power; education is transformative. Agency is based on positive life chances; social movements are life changing. This book demonstrates how social justice embodies learning and activism, and how students, workers and citizens can engage to make the world a better place for all.
Rob White, Head of School of Social Sciences and Professor of Criminology, University of Tasmania, Australia

At this moment when humanity finds itself at a crossroads with crises enveloping democracies and the environment the world over, Lyle Munros Life Chances, Education and Social Movements illuminates where our attention is needed and how our efforts should be invested. Munro develops the conceptual prism of life chances and demonstrates how it enables us to conceptualise the ways in which societies should serve their populations. And, at a time when the scale of the issues confronting us is so great and so daunting, Munros holistic work clarifies what we all should be doing through important social movements to improve our collective life chances, as well as our chances of sustaining life on our planet. This is a book for our times.
Julian C. H. Lee, Associate Professor of Global Studies, RMIT University, Australia; Author of Womens Activism in Malaysia: Voices and Insights; and Co-author of Monsters of Modernity: Global Icons for Our Critical Condition

Education matters, and everyone needs to have access to a rich education that prepares them for their lives as citizens, members of their communities and families, and as workers. Society benefits when more people have access to education. Lyle Munro shows why this is so in this important, scholarly and well-argued book.
Leesa Wheelahan, William G. Davis Chair in Community College Leadership, University of Toronto, Canada

Author Bio

Lyle Munro is an honorary research fellow at Federation University Australia, having taught sociology at Monash University from 1990 to 2010. Munros published books cover the history, philosophy and sociology of the animal rights movement in Australia, the UK and the United States: Compassionate Beasts: The Quest for Animal Rights (2001) and Confronting Cruelty: Animals, Moral Orthodoxy and the Challenge of the Animal Rights Movement (2005).