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Elementary education in India : policy shifts, issues, and challenges / edited by Jyoti Raina.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London, New York : Routledge, 2020Description: xix, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780367898250 (hardback)
Uniform titles:
  • Elementary education in India (2020)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Elementary education in IndiaDDC classification:
  • 370.954 RAI 23 015589
LOC classification:
  • LA1152
Summary: "This book examines the policy shifts over the past three 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. The essays in the volume: Discuss a range of elementary education policies and programs in India with focus on the policy development in recent decades of neoliberalism. Analyse policy from diverse perspectives and varied vantage points by scholars, activists, and practitioners illustrated with contemporary statistics. Introduce the key curriculum, assessment and learning debates from contemporary educational discourse. Integrate the tools and methods of education policy analysis with basic concepts in education like equality, quantity, equity, quality and, inclusion. A definitive inter-disciplinary work on a key sector in India, this volume will be essential for scholars and researchers of education, public policy, sociology, politics and South Asian studies"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book examines the policy shifts over the past three 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. The essays in the volume: Discuss a range of elementary education policies and programs in India with focus on the policy development in recent decades of neoliberalism. Analyse policy from diverse perspectives and varied vantage points by scholars, activists, and practitioners illustrated with contemporary statistics. Introduce the key curriculum, assessment and learning debates from contemporary educational discourse. Integrate the tools and methods of education policy analysis with basic concepts in education like equality, quantity, equity, quality and, inclusion. A definitive inter-disciplinary work on a key sector in India, this volume will be essential for scholars and researchers of education, public policy, sociology, politics and South Asian studies"--

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