Debating Education in India – Issues and Concerns

Maya John

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Tulika Books
22 April 2024

Education; Educational strategies & policy

The essays in this book highlight how education as a component of cultural inheritance remains a contentious issue. Representing the transfer of knowledge, skill endowment, and so on, education harbours the tendency to support and reproduce social hierarchy, as well as the countervailing propensity towards amelioration of vulnerable socio-economic groups. A rich body of work cutting across disciplines, the volume seeks to establish the contentious past, ambivalent present and uncertain future of education. Concerns deliberated in this book have resonance with issues that are debated internationally during the era of the neoliberal shift.

By: Maya John
Imprint: Tulika Books
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 666g
ISBN: 9788195639243
ISBN 10: 8195639240
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 22 April 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Maya John teaches history at the University of Delhi (India). She is a prominent social activist who has been writing on issues of health, education, labour, gender, social movements, transformative politics and social theory. She has recently co-edited Who Cares? Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers.

Reviews for Debating Education in India – Issues and Concerns

This book makes an immense contribution in bringing back the focus of education, at elementary as well as higher education levels, to quality and equitable access. The release of the book is pertinent in the contemporary context because of several significant changes in the past decade. -- Toolika Wadhwa * Indian Journal of Human Development * Put together, the 11 essays in this volume provide a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the issues that plague education in India today, both in the context of school and higher education. . . It draws attention to certain ‘disturbing trends’ in the post-Independence years which sustained structural inequalities that were later compounded by the rise of neoliberalism from the 1990s onwards. -- Rupamanjari Hegde * Frontline * A valuable addition to the ‘historical turn’ in education studies scholarship that will benefit interdisciplinary readers, students of the discipline as well as lay readers. -- Joyeeta Dey * Doing Sociology *