1st Edition

Education and Inequality in India A Classroom View

By Manabi Majumdar, Jos Mooij Copyright 2011
208 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Universalization of primary education has been high on the policy agenda in India. This book looks at the reproduction of social inequalities within the educational system in India, and how this is contested in different ways. It examines whether the concept of `education for all’ is just a mechanically conceived policy target to chasing enrolment and attendance or whether it is a larger social... Read more

1. Introduction: Education and Inequality 2. Segmentation and Segregation: The Reproduction of Inequality in the Schooling System 3. State Action and Inaction in Elementary Education: Paradoxes within the Policy Process 4. Teachers’ Professionalism and Social Class: Ambivalences in the Life of Government School Teachers 5. Teachers and Children: Interactions in the Classroom 6. Pedagogy at the Grassroots: About Teaching Practices and Assessments 7. Quality and Equality: Interpreting Textbooks 8. Contesting Inequalities through Activism 9. Some Afterthoughts

 

Biography

Manabi Majumdar is a member of the academic faculty at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India. She has published on issues of human development and democracy.

Jos Mooij is Associate Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Netherlands. Her main research interests are the politics of public policies, policy process, food policy, education policies, decentralisation, also in the context of India.