Education and inequality in India : a classroom view / / Manabi Majumdar and Jos Mooij

• Autore: Majumdar Manabi
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 379.2/60954
• Soggetto topico: Educational equalization - India; Education, Elementary - India; Equality - India
• Classificazione: POL000000SOC008000
• Altri autori: MooijJos E
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Education and Inequality in India: A classroom view; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Education and inequality; 2 Segmentation and segregation: The reproduction of inequality in the schooling system; 3 State action and inaction in elementary education: Paradoxes within the policy process; 4 Teachers' professionalism social class: Ambivalences in the life of government school teachers; 5 Teachers and children: Interactions in the classroom; 6 Pedagogy at the grassroots: About teaching practices and assessments ; 7 Quality and equality: Interpreting textbooks8 Contesting inequalities through activism; 9 Some afterthoughts; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book focuses on primary education in India and interrogates what schooling means and does to children from weaker sections of Indian society and which values underpin the school system. It examines whether the concept of "education for all" is just a mechanically conceived policy target to chasing enrolment and attendance or whether it a larger social goal and a deeper political statement about the need for attacking entrenched social inequalities, and above all an affirmation of the idea that schooling has a liberating potential. Drawing on original data collected in the two states of Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, the authors first present the multiple ways in which social class impinges on the educational system, educational processes and educational outcomes. In the second part of the book, issues around autonomy and accountability are explored via an analysis of the position of teachers within the educational hierarchy, and by looking at the various possibilities of making teachers accountable. The last part centres on the learning process, with a particular focus on the classroom. The conclusion includes recommendations that are related to the necessity for a larger debate and normative framework, which includes private schools as possible partners in the pursuing of a public good for which a public entity should take some responsibility, and in conjuncture to that, the necessity to move from government action and responsibilities to a broader concept of public action"-- Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: Education and inequality in India
• ISBN: 1-136-68054-3; 1-283-64290-5; 0-203-81021-X; 1-136-68055-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785999103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series