ABSTRACT
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 chapters in the volume:
• Discuss a range of elementary education policies and programs in India with a 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |21 pages
Introduction
part I|66 pages
Neoliberal restructuring of education
chapter Chapter 2|12 pages
Extending the neoliberal agenda to forbidden territory
part II|46 pages
Understanding knowledge and curriculum
chapter Chapter 5|17 pages
Draft NEP 2016
chapter Chapter 6|14 pages
Bin bhay hoye na preet
part III|66 pages
Schooling, social justice and critical pedagogy
chapter Chapter 8|17 pages
Sanskara 1
chapter Chapter 9|23 pages
Consensualised reproduction and the fascised rule of capital
chapter Chapter 10|24 pages
A strategy for exclusion
part IV|83 pages
Transnational perspective on neoliberalism and education