Description
This volume presents an interdisciplinary framework to map out contemporary educational studies in India. Based on conceptual tools, quantitative methods and ethnographic accounts drawn from extensive fieldwork, it addresses emerging discourses on educational policies, their operation in the everyday functioning of institutions and actual practices in teaching and learning. Individual chapters discuss the intersectionality in the current educational system of region, gender, class, caste and minorities.
With comparative perspectives and case studies from across states, including under-studied rural and urban regions of India, the book explores a wide range of issues affecting the educational system, including socioeconomic and gender inequalities; the educational status of tribal settlements in the hinterlands and their respective urban areas; the marginalisation of minorities; challenges in accessing educational avenues and choices; and the model for imparting vocational education and training. It navigates complex sites of discrimination and exclusion in the institutional spaces of the educational system and assesses the consequences of market dynamics and ideological undercurrents. Presenting first-hand information from the field, it evaluates educational policies, practices and research; investigates challenges and failures; provides suggestions and fosters critical thinking for a knowledge society.
The findings in this book will be of interest to researchers, scholars and teachers of education, economics, sociology, urban education and the politics of education, as well as of public policy, governance and development studies. It will also be useful to research institutions, policymakers, educationists, social scientists, education professionals, and governmental and non-governmental bodies working on education.
Table of Contents
Foreword
R. Govinda
Introduction: Mapping the Field of Education Policy Research
Pradeep Kumar Choudhury and Suresh Babu G.S
Part I: Equity, Access and Inclusion in School Education
1. Problems of Equity and Access in Education: A Case of School-Merging Policy
Aysha Malik
2. Multilingual Education (MLE) for Inclusion: The Case of a Tribal Community
Lipika Das
Part II: Women and Minorities in Higher Education
3. Legitimising Patriarchy in the Private Educational System? A Case Study of a Women’s University in Rajasthan
Ravi Shankar and Reenu Ram
4. The Inclusion of Minorities in the Changing Dynamics of Education
Chingiz Khan
Part III: Youth, Urban Marginality and Education: A Contested Terrain
5. Education, Youth and the Labour Market: A Case of Urban Marginalities
Naomi Prachi Hazarika
6. Educational Choices of Gujjars in the Urban Peripheries
Heena Khari
7. Contesting Learning Spaces in Higher Education: Problems of Language Acquisition
Anup Kumar Bali
Part IV: Knowledge and Labour Market: Redefining Skills and Aspirations
8. Higher Education and Knowledge-Based Industries: Understanding Geographical Preferences
Sumit Kumar
9. Students’ Aspirations for Social Sciences: Explorations from a Field Survey
Aakriti Saini
10. Imparting Vocational Education and Training Through Higher Education Institutions: An Integrative Model
Antara Sengupta and Leena Chandran Wadia
