Routledge Handbook of Education in India: Debates Practices and Policies

This comprehensive handbook introduces the reader to the education system in India in terms of its structural features, its relations with society and culture, and the debates that have shaped the present-day policy ethos. It is useful to scholars and researchers of education and political studies. Introduction Logic of access 1. Compulsion to educate 2. Education in urban areas 3. Institutional diversity and quality 4. Examination for elimination: Celebrating fear and penalising failure Curriculum and teaching 5. Mind the (language-medium) gap 6. Science and mathematics teaching in schools and colleges 7. The teaching of social sciences in schools and colleges in India 8. The uses and teaching of history 9. An experiment in rural education: The revival of Anand Niketan Training for professions 10. The making of India as an engineering society 11. Discourse of teacher education in India 12. Management education in India: How far have we come? Universities and society 13. Indian higher education: Twenty-first-century challenges 14. Gendered access and participation: Unequal subject choices in Indian higher education 15. Caste quotas and formal inclusion in Indian higher education 16. Tribes and higher education in India Underbelly 17. Active partners: Rethinking the educated unemployed in India 18. Access, success, and excess: Debating shadow education in India 19. Understanding Vyapam