Full Description
What is education, and who counts as an 'educated person' amidst competing religious, political, and pedagogical ideologies, which have shaped contemporary educational practices and institutions in Nepal? How have social and political changes, an increasing commodification of education, a continued reliance on foreign aid, and expanded geographical horizons contributed to a reshaping of the educational landscape of Nepal and thereby altered, opened up, and closed avenues of learning available to the Nepali people? Grounded in the intersection between anthropology, sociology, and development studies, and based on rich ethnographic evidence, the essays in this edited volume illuminate educational transformations and avenues of learning in the context of wider social and political changes in Nepal. They capture diverse and competing educational experiences and trajectories; examine the process of construction and transmission of knowledge in different sites within and beyond institutions of formal education; and explore the interconnections between education, state, and society.
Contents
1: Karen Valentin and Uma Pradhan: Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Nepal: Educational Transformations and Avenues of Learning
2: Todd John Wallenius: Nepal's New Rich: Class, Differentiation, and Elite Education in Kathmandu
3: Shrochis Karki: The Burden of Inherited Aspirations: Education as a Positional Good
4: Reidun Faye: Navigating Class Through Education: Urban Poor Families's Choice of Schools
5: Krishna P. Adhikari and David N. Gellner: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Dalit Experiences of Primary and Secondary Education in West-Central Nepal
6: Cameron David Warner: A Buddhist Educated Person: 'Modern Education' in the Monastery
7: Sarah Burack, Geoff Childs, Elizabeth A. Quinn, Jhangchuk Sangmo, and Jean Hunleth: Drawing Out Migration: Rural to Urban Transitions and the Re-imagined Futures of Himalayan School Children
8: Karen Valentin: Moving to Learn: New Horizons of Nepali Education
9: Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka: Contesting Caste at University Sites: Dalits at Nepal's Universities - Inequality, Belonging, Transformations
10: Uma Pradhan: (Re)constructing a 'Good' School: Materials, Affects, and Meanings of Education in Post-earthquake Nepal
11: Miranda Weinberg: Locating Multilingual Education in Nepal: Dhimal Language as Local and National?
