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Educational regimes in contemporary India / edited by Radhika Chopra and Patricia Jeffery ; in collaboration with Helmut Reifeld. - New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Pub., 2005. - 346 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

"Konrad-Adenaur-Stiftung; ESRC, Economic & Social Research Council."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-331) and index.

Preface
Introduction: Hearts, Minds and Pockets - Patricia Jeffery
I. CHANGING CONTEXTS OF EDUCATION AND THE STATE
Social Inequalities and the Privatisation of Secondary Schooling in North India - Roger Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey
Education Exclusion and the Developmental State - Ramya Subrahmanian
An Ideal School and the Schooled Ideal: Education at the Margins - Sarada Balagopalan
Plural Society and Schooling: Urdu-medium Schools in Delhi - Anne Vaugier-Chatterjee
II. TEACHING AND LEARNING REGIMES
Doon School Aesthetics - David Macdougall
Serving the Nation: Gender and Family Values in Military Schools - Veronique Benei
Everyday Life in a Girls` Madrasah in Delhi - Mareike Jule Winkelmann
Negotiation and Compromise: Gender and Government Elementary Education - Elspeth Page
Learning Processes within the Ustad-Shagird Relationship - Rumman Hameed
Cultures of Adolescence: Educationally Disadvantaged Young Women in an Urban Slum - Meenakshi Thapan
III. DIFFERENT TRANSITIONS, DIFFERENT ADULTHOODS
`Revaluing` Education - Anita Rampal
Broken Trajectories: Dalit Young Men and Formal Education - Craig Jeffrey, Roger Jeffery and Patricia Jeffery
Changing Childhoods in Industrial Chhattisgarh - Jonathan Parry
Sisters and Brothers: Schooling, Family and Migration - Radhika Chopra
Bibliography
Index

ISBN: 0761933492 (paper back)

LCCN: 2005001290

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Education--India.
Education and state--India.

LC Class. No.: LA1151 / .E367 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 370.954 CHO