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A timely enquiry into the disjuncture between schooling and society, this book aims to examine the specific spatialities and temporalities of modern schooling through which non-normative childhoods are constructed as the 'provincial other'.
List of contents
Introduction-Modern Schooling and Trajectories of Exclusion: Childhoods in India 1. Reframing "inclusion": On the "marginal Child" and the "subaltern student" 2. Migrant childhoods and schooling in India: contesting the inclusion-exclusion binary 3. Decontextualized schooling and (child) development: Adivasi communities' negotiations of early childhood care and education and schooling provisions in India 4. Contesting the secular school: everyday nationalism and negotiations of Muslim childhoods 5. Clean bodies in school: spatial-material discourses of children's school uniforms and hygiene in Tamil Nadu, India 6. Inclusive education in practice: disability, 'special needs' and the (Re)production of normativity in Indian childhoods 7. Constructions and contestations of Indigenous girlhoods in residential schools in Central India 8. Caste, space, and schooling in nineteenth century South India Conclusion
About the author
Divya Kannan is Assistant Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, India, and focuses on Histories of Childhood and Youth in South Asia.
R. Maithreyi is Strategic Lead - Adolescent Health Thematic, at Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, India. Her work spans the areas of childhood and youth, intervention, and research.
