Educational Regimes in Contemporary India

Educational Regimes in Contemporary India
ISBN-10
935280533X
ISBN-13
9789352805334
Category
Education
Pages
346
Language
English
Published
2005-05-11
Publisher
SAGE Publishing India
Authors
Patricia Jeffery, Radhika Chopra

Description

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.

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