Foreword / João M. Paraskeva -- Introduction : critical education in international perspectives -- Part I : education, markets and alternatives -- Lifelong education/Learning : an alternative critical approach -- Philosophy of differences and social creation / Anna Maria Piussi and Antonia De -- Part II : a critical reading of the world -- Gabriela Mistral : poet of education -- Lorenzo Milani and the schools of San Donato and Sant'Andrea di Barbiana -- Ada Gobetti : education for resistance and reconstruction -- Paulo Freire, globalisation and emancipatory education -- Part III : education and migration -- Towards an anti-racist education and human solidarity in the Mediterranean and In the context of migrations -- Hegemony, migration and misplaced alliances. Lessons from Antonio Gramsci -- Part IV : popular education, social movements and the struggle for independence -- Amilcar Cabral and Paulo Freire : the struggle for independence and popular education in Guinea Bissau, with Amilcar Araujo Pereira -- Julius K. Nyerere's sgnposts for a postcolonial education -- Social movements and critical education in Brazil : from the origins of popular education to the struggle for democratization, with Roberto Leher -- Epilogue.