Youth, Class and Education in Urban India: The Year That Can Break or Make You

ISBN-13: 9781138320222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 178 str.

David Sancho

Opis

Set in urban India, the book discusses changing educational landscapes in the South Indian city of Kochi, a local hub for trade, tourism, and cosmopolitan middle-class lifestyles. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the author examines the way education features as a major way the transformation of the city, and India in general, are experienced and envisaged by upwardly-mobile residents. This path-breaking new study adds a unique, anthropologically informed, perspective to South Asian studies, urban studies and the study of education.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Education and the Rise of a Middle-Class Dream 3. Aspirational Regimes 4. ‘Keeping up with the Times’: Rebranding Education in Globalising India 5. Experiencing Middle-Class Schooling 6. Education at the Fringes: Schooling in the Kerala Backwaters 7. Living the Final Year of Schooling 8. Conclusions

O autorze

David Sancho holds a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and is currently carrying out research on transnational educational trajectories with Indian-origin pupils in Dubai.