Educational Regimes in Contemporary India

✍ Scribed by Radhika Chopra (editor), Patricia Jeffery (editor), Helmut Reifeld (editor)

• Publisher: SAGE India
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 347
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: Hearts, Minds and Pockets • Patricia Jeffery
Part 1: Changing Contexts of Education and the State
1. Social Inequalities and the Privatisation of Secondary Schooling in North India • Roger Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey
2. Education Exclusion and the Developmental State • Ramya Subrahmanian
3. An Ideal School and the Schooled Ideal: Education at the Margins • Sarada Balagopalan
4. Plural Society and Schooling: Urdu-medium Schools in Delhi • Anne Vaugier-Chatterjee
Part 2: Teaching and Learning Regimes
5. Doon School Aesthetics • David MacDougall
6. Serving the Nation: Gender and Family Values in Military Schools • Véronique Bénéï
7. Everyday Life in aGirls’ Madrasah in Delhi • Mareike Jule Winkelmann
8. Negotiation and Compromise: Gender and Government Elementary Education • Elspeth Page
9. Learning Processes within the Usta-d–Sha-gird Relationship • Rumman Hameed
10. Cultures of Adolescence: Educationally Disadvantaged Young Women in an Urban Slum • Meenakshi Thapan
Part 3: Different Transitions, Different Adulthoods
11. ‘Revaluing’ Education • Anita Rampal
12. Broken Trajectories: Dalit Young Men and Formal Education • Craig Jeffrey, Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery
13. Changing Childhoods in Industrial Chhattisgarh • Jonathan Parry
14. Sisters and Brothers: Schooling, Family and Migration • Radhika Chopra
Bibliography
About the Editors and Contributors
Index