Tabla de Contenidos: “…Overview / Anwar Shah -- Introduction to participatory budgeting -- A guide to participatory budgeting / Brian Wampler -- Citizen participation in budgeting: prospects for developing countries / Donald P. Moynihan -- Regional surveys -- Lessons from Latin America's experience with participatory budgeting / Benjamin Goldfrank -- Participatory budgeting in Central and Eastern Europe / Alta Fölscher -- Participatory budgeting in Asia / by Alta Fölscher -- Sub-Saharan Africa's experience with participatory budgeting / Adrienne Shall -- Participatory budgeting in the Middle East and North Africa / Alta Fölscher.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cultural literacy in developed countries -- Curriculum as cultural reproduction -- Linguistic roots of cultural invasion in Paulo Freire's pedagogy -- The dialectic of nihilism and the state -- Teaching a nineteenth-century pattern of thinking through a twentieth-century machine -- How computers contribute to the ecological crisis -- Ideology, educational computing, and the moral poverty of the information age -- A Batesonian perspective on education and the bonds of language --…”