Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes the relationship between higher education, the economy and government in the development of a democratic and market economy society in emerging market countries. "The fourteen chapters are well written and offer insightful historical, theoretical and pragmatic analyses of the social studies curriculum as an ageny of social and economic change. As a whole, the volume deconstructs simplistic popular beliefs about the nature of democracy and articulates what teachers can do to create conditions supporting a new social order that is gender fair, antiracist, and economically just." -- J. A. Gamradt University of New Mexico