Educational Regimes in Contemporary India
"The commonsense understanding of 'education' rests on the assumption that it has a straightforward positive value. However, in practice, education is profoundly ambiguous in its effects. By focusing on 'educational regimes' - and thereby locating values in a broad political terrain encompassing global, national and local contexts - this collection of original essays addresses numerous crucial issues. These include: Whether educational regimes relate to other facets of contemporary Indian...
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Fourteen contributions focus on the concept of local, national, and global educational regimes in terms of changing contexts of education and the state, teaching and learning, and different transitions leading to different adulthoods. Their topics include social inequalities and privitization of secondary schools in North India, exclusionary policies, education for the marginalized and those in plural societies, gender and family values in military schools and in government elementary education, cultural disadvantage amongst adolescent women in slums, formal education amongst Dalit young men, and issues of migration within education. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Patricia Jeffery : introduction : hearts, minds and pockets131Roger Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey : social inequalities and the privatisation of secondary schooling in North India412Ramya Subrahmanian : education exclusion and the developmental state623Sarada Balagopalan : an ideal school and the schooled ideal : education at the margins834Anne Vaugier-Chatterjee : plural society and schooling : Urdu-medium schools in Delhi995David MacDougall : Doon school aesthetics1216Veronique Benei : serving the nation : gender and family values in military schools1417Mareike Jule Winkelmann : everyday life in a girls' Madrasah in Delhi1608Elspeth Page : negotiation and compromise : gender and government elementary education1789Rumman Hameed : learning processes within the Ustad-Shagird relationship19710Meenakshi Thapan : cultures of adolescence : educationally disadvantaged young women in an urban slum21611Anita Rampal : 'revaluing' education23712Craig Jeffrey, Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery : broken trajectories : Dalit young men and formal education25613Jonathan Parry : changing childhoods in industrial Chhattisgarh27614Radhika Chopra : sisters and brothers : schooling, family and migration299
