ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims at enabling readers to recognise and pursue the dimensions of education. It focuses on the corpus of knowledge available within India and elsewhere about education. In the areas of science, mathematics, and the social sciences, the book provides the opportunity to examine the overlap or continuity between the school and the university. The book can be used for locating the major debates that have shaped India's educational climate. It aims at arousing the reader's curiosity about education in a country as deeply diverse and as politically charged as India is. It introduces the reader to curriculum policies and wars in Indian education as a major theme across different levels of the system. The growth of access to different stages or levels of education is one important factor shaping the systemic organisation and the relation between education and economic opportunities.
