Elementary Education in India: Policy Shifts, Issues and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9780367784386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str.

Jyoti Raina

Opis

This volume examines the policy shifts over the past two and a half decades in the Indian education system. It explores how these shifts have unequivocally established the domination of neoliberal capital in the context of elementary education in India.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: The Neoliberal Restructuring of Education 1. Understanding Neoliberal Policy Shifts in Elementary Education in India 2. Governance, Quality, and Accountability 3. Extending the Neoliberal Agenda to a Forbidden Territory: Public-Private Partnership in School Education in India 4. Education Policies in Conflict with the Freedom Movement’s Educational Vision 5. Public Education: Can it be fixed? Part II: Schooling, Social Justice, and Critical Pedagogy 6. A Strategy for Exclusion: Neoliberal Policy in Education 7. Consensualised Reproduction and Fasciation of Society: Critical Pedagogy in Times of Despair 8. Sanskara, Notion of Hereditary Educability and Teachers Belief 9. 'Men Can’t Teach Young Children’: Gender –Labor Conundrums in the Neoliberal Era Part III: Understanding Knowledge and Curriculum 10. Education: for ‘Citizenship’ or ‘Resource Development’? 11. Bin Bhay Hoye Na Preet: Resilience of Fear-Based Examination-Detention Policy in Indian Education System 12. Modernization, Globalization and Education in India Part IV: Transnational Perspective on Neoliberalism and Education 13. The Reactionary Right and its Carnival of Reaction: Global Neoliberalism, Reactionary Neo-conservatism: Marxist Critique, Education Analysis, and Policy 14. The Agonies of Neoliberal Education: What hope progress? 15. Times of Educational Change: Towards an Understanding of Patterns of Historical and Cultural Refraction 

O autorze

Jyoti Raina is Associate Professor, Department of Elementary Education, Gargi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. Her main teaching focus is educational studies, learning theory, and science education. She also looks after the work of equal opportunity, Gandhi studies, and anti-discrimination at the college.