India Goes to School Education Policy and Cultural Politics /

• Main Author: Tukdeo, Shivali (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Educational policy.; Education and state.; Educational sociology .; Education and sociology.; Social policy.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.; Social Policy.

This book pays attention to education in India as part of several overlapping stories developed along different axes: stories of dissent, contestations, appropriation and social action. It historicises the enterprise of formal education by paying attention to the numerous policy shifts. Further, it...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Struggles of the Word and the World
• Chapter 2: Formal Education: Alphabets of Reforms and Escape
• Chapter 3: Towards Reconstruction: Education in Post-Colonial India
• Chapter 4: Script and Screenplay: International Actors
• Chapter 5: Education, Migration and the Construction of Transnational Solution Space
• Chapter 6: Transnational Education Action: Claims, Practices and Investments
• Chapter 7: Contexts, Claims and Compulsions: Education Policy in Contemporary India.