Simultaneous Identities - Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation

This book illustrates that social actors in minority language education in Nepal made simultaneous claims to more than one social identity by discursively positioning 'ethnic identity' as 'national identity'. By arguing for an analytical necessity to adopt relational approach, it aims to complicate the neat compartmentalisation of identities.

List of contents

List of figures and images; List of acronyms; Introduction. Language, education, and the Nepali nation; 1. Language, education, and state-making in Nepal; 2. Constructing an educated person; in mother tongue; 3. Language, public space, and identity; 4. Transforming a language to script; 5. Knowledge-making, language, and education; 6. Quality, equality, and language ideology; 7. Ethnicity, education, and employment; Conclusion. Simultaneous identities.

About the author

Uma Pradhan is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow and Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on power-laden dimensions of education and examines the interconnection between state, society and schooling. Her research has been published in journals such as Education and Ethnography, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.

Summary

This book illustrates that social actors in minority language education in Nepal made simultaneous claims to more than one social identity by discursively positioning 'ethnic identity' as 'national identity'. By arguing for an analytical necessity to adopt relational approach, it aims to complicate the neat compartmentalisation of identities.

Product details

• Authors: Uma Pradhan, Uma (University of Oxford) Pradhan, Pradhan Uma Pradhan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781108489928
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48992-8
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: South Asia in the Social Sciences; South Asia in the Social Scien
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Nepal, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social issues & processes, Public Administration, Social and cultural anthropology, Ethical issues & debates, Ethical issues and debates, Regional Government Policies, Regional, state and other local government policies