Educational Regimes in Contemporary India

Klappentext The commonsense understanding of `education` rests on the assumption that it has a straightforward positive value. In practice education is profoundly ambiguous in its effects. By focusing on `educational regimes`-and thereby locating values in a broad political terrain encompassing global! national and local contexts-this collection of original essays addresses numerous crucial issues. These include: whether educational regimes relate to other facets of contemporary India society; the extent to which they facilitate the values and ideals enshrined in the Constitution and in policy goals; and the implications of the differential impact of educational regimes on different social groups in India. Educational Regimes in Contemporary India is a collective effort of a group of eminent sociologists and anthropologists…The book successfully holds the readers' attention in each of its inter-connected chapters by an intense deconstruction of crucial variables...The book validates an important finding that the differential outcome fro the differential social groups have mostly been determined by their Social capital in the country. The success of this volume lies at the basic fact that the authors make the readers think about the related issues simultaneously…This volume with its thorough analysis places the ethnography and social anthropology at the centre-stage. Hence it is special volume. Furthermore almost all the contemporary discourse and debate has been efficiently covered in this book. This carefully edited volume with lucid rigorous analysis becomes a precious work…this volume becomes an essential reading for the scholar in social science. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Hearts! Minds and Pockets - Patricia Jeffery I. CHANGING CONTEXTS OF EDUCATION AND THE STATE Social Inequalities and the Privatisation of Secondary Schooling in North India - Roger Jeffery! Patricia Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey Education Exclusion and the Developmental State - Ramya Subrahmanian An Ideal School and the Schooled Ideal: Education at the Margins - Sarada Balagopalan Plural Society and Schooling: Urdu-medium Schools in Delhi - Anne Vaugier-Chatterjee II. TEACHING AND LEARNING REGIMES Doon School Aesthetics - David Macdougall Serving the Nation: Gender and Family Values in Military Schools - Veronique Benei Everyday Life in a Girls` Madrasah in Delhi - Mareike Jule Winkelmann Negotiation and Compromise: Gender and Government Elementary Education - Elspeth Page Learning Processes within the Ustad-Shagird Relationship - Rumman Hameed Cultures of Adolescence: Educationally Disadvantaged Young Women in an Urban Slum - Meenakshi Thapan III. DIFFERENT TRANSITIONS! DIFFERENT ADULTHOODS `Revaluing` Education - Anita Rampal Broken Trajectories: Dalit Young Men and Formal Education - Craig Jeffrey! Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery Changing Childhoods in Industrial Chhattisgarh - Jonathan Parry Sisters and Brothers: Schooling! Family and Migration - Radhika Chopra Bibliography Index ...

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• Authors: Radhika (EDT)/ Jeffery Chopra, Radhika Jeffery Chopra
• Assisted by: Radhika Chopra (Editor), Patricia M. Jeffery (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.05.2005
• EAN: 9780761933496
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-3349-6
• No. of pages: 346
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education; Indien