1st Edition

Investigating the Sustainable Development Education Goal in Bangladesh and India Experimentality in Education Policy

By Rino Wiseman Adhikary Copyright 2026
258 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The author reveals an intriguing transformation in education policy as the laboratory and experimentation enter and alter the domain of social governance globally. He examines the global framing of the UN Sustainable Development Goal for Education (SDG 4) and its national implementation in two South Asian countries, Bangladesh and India. The book demonstrates how global organisations such... Read more

Contents List of Figures List of Tables Series Editors’ Foreword Acknowledgements 1. SDG4 in Bangladesh and India: Labifying policy, experimentalising governance 2. Experimentality and the labification of the social 3. Topological semiotics: A sociology of experimentality in education policy 4. UNESCO and the global politics of SDG 4: UIS and TCG as a proliferating policy lab 5. Tracking SDGs, reforming education: a2i and the labification of policy in Bangladesh 6. BANBEIS, CapEd and SDG 4: Innovating data and datafying innovation in education and policy 7. Chronopolitics in India’s education policy: Decentralising experimentality 8. NITI Aayog and the temporospatialities of data: From DISE through UDISE to UDISE plus 9. SDG 4 and the politics of experimentality Index

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Rino Wiseman Adhikary is an honorary fellow at the Centre for Research for Educational Impact (REDI), School of Education, Deakin University, Australia.