Schooling and Aspirations in the Urban Margins
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Schooling and Aspirations in the Urban Margins

Ethnography of Education in the Indian Context

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Schooling and Aspirations in the Urban Margins

Ethnography of Education in the Indian Context

About this book

This book presents a detailed ethnographic study conducted in an urban slum in India. It explores how a State school, as a social and pedagogic institution, shapes the aspirations and worldviews of children in the urban margins.

The volume engages with the children's experience of marginality and exclusion as they negotiate the intersecting axes of caste, class, gender, and citizenship. It further explores how their everyday school experience is mediated by the power asymmetries between the teachers and the community. In this process, it makes-sense of the political dynamics between the State and its margins while highlighting the role of schools and locating childhood in this context.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book will be of interest to researchers, students, and teachers of education studies, sociology and politics of education, teacher education, childhood and youth studies, and urban studies. It will also be useful for education policymakers, and professionals in the development sector.

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Information

Year
2021
Print ISBN
9780367903657
eBook ISBN
9781000393583

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. List of abbreviations
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Education and urban marginalisation: international comparisons
  11. 3 Studying the non-linear: ethnographic explorations in education
  12. 4 Constructing and deconstructing the slum
  13. 5 The idea of sarkari school: negotiations and aspirations
  14. 6 The teachers and the school culture
  15. 7 Experiencing childhood in the margins: meanings and aspirations
  16. 8 Concluding thoughts
  17. References
  18. Index