Full Description
Shifting Landscapes is a rich, multidimensional exploration of urban education in the multiverse of India, adding value to the growing scholarship on broader connections between urbanisation and education. As cities have continued to develop, their spatial, social and cultural landscapes have also evolved to adapt to the global capitalist needs. Education has been an integral part of these transformations, and the upheavals within the education sector have given rise to privilege and exclusion in schooling and growing marginality of the poor. The volume takes on an interdisciplinary approach to examine how the idea of the urban and that of urban education are co-constituted and, more specifically, how spatial and educational inequalities in cities intersect. The chapters bring together diverse contexts to address the heterogeneity of urban social reality in India and similarly document the changes in educational access, provision, aspirations and politics in several parts of the country. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Contents
List of maps; Introduction: Education and the Changing Urban Geetha B. Nambissan, Nandini Manjrekar, Shivali Tukdeo and Indra Sengupta; Part I. City Histories and Educational Pasts: 1. Urbanising Uttarpara: Philanthropy, Improvement, Education c. 1846-1865 Akash Bhattacharya; 2. Schooling the Working Class: Public Education in Bombay's Mill District in the Early Twentieth Century Nandini Manjrekar; 3. At a Distance to the City: Jamia Millia Islamia's Foundational Years Margrit Pernau; Part II. Urban Transformations, Marginalities and Education: 4. The Changing Urban and Education in Delhi: Privilege and Exclusion in a Megacity Geetha B. Nambissan; 5. Relentless Stretching: Urban Transformation and Educational Inequality Shivali Tukdeo; 6. University and Urban Transformation: Reflections on an Education City in the National Capital Region Debarati Bagchi; Part III. Beyond the Metropolis: Urban Spaces, Education and Changing Aspirations: 7. Changing Urban Education Trends: Case Study of a 'Small Town' in Madhya Pradesh Sadhna Saxena; 8. 'Ours is a Semi-English Medium School': Schooling Aspirations and a Neighbourhood School in Banaras Nirmali Goswami; 9. Skills Training, Migration and Employment: The Case of Raichur in Northern Karnataka Supriya Roychowdhury and Vishaka V. Warrier; Part IV. Neighbourhoods, Minorities and the Politics of Education: 10. Marginalities, Education, and the Urban: A Study of a Muslim Neighbourhood in Kolkata Anasua Chatterjee; 11. Understanding Life and Education in an Urban 'Ghetto' Farah Farooqui; 12. Urban Marginalisation, Exclusion and Education: The Widows' Colony in Delhi Yamini Agarwal.
