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List of contents
List of figures. List of tables. Contributors. Preface. Introduction Part I: Logic of Access 1. Compulsion to Educate 2. Education in Urban Areas 3. Institutional Diversity and Quality 4. Examination for Elimination: Celebrating Fear and Penalising Failure Part II: Curriculum and Teaching 5. Mind the (Language-Medium) Gap 6. Science and Mathematics Teaching in Schools and Colleges 7. The Teaching of Social Sciences in Schools and Colleges in India 8. The Uses and Teaching of History 9. An Experiment in Rural Education: The Revival of Anand Niketan Part III: Training for Professions 10. The Making of India as an Engineering Society 11. Discourse of Teacher Training in India 12. Management Education in India: How far have we come? Part IV: Universities and Society 13. Indian Higher Education: 21st-Century Challenges 14. Gendered Access and Participation: Unequal subject choices in Indian Higher Education 15. Caste Quotas and Formal Inclusion in Indian Higher Education 16. Tribes and Higher Education in India Part V: Underbelly 17. Active Partners: Rethinking the Educated Unemployed in India 18. Access, Success and Excess: Debating Shadow Education in India 19. Understanding Vyapam. Index
About the author
Krishna Kumar is former Professor of Education, University of Delhi and former Director, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), India.
Summary
The volume examines the key issues that face India's higher and school education, the examination system, disciplines of social sciences, curriculum, teachers, law, coaching and unemployment.
