Author: Jeebanlata Salam
Publisher: Indian Social Institute
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 150
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187218797
Description
Millions of India’s population is still in bondage and trapped in the causality of painful and multiple forms of silent deprivation. A vast population of these social groups belongs to the historically, socially, economically, politically and culturally marginalized communities, including the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes, women etc. The systematic exclusion of these communities is indeed an everyday real experience.
This book examines how the educational deprivation of the weaker communities are fundamentally rooted to such forms of oppression and exploitation, usually played out by powerful social forces that destroy and annihilate all those qualities that are intrinsic to be human. Education, as a fundamental entitlement for all children, including the most marginalized would remain an illusion unless the trade offs of educational rights and the social, economic, political and cultural rights of the disadvantaged are safeguarded.
Contents
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1
SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND EDUCATION
State, Society and Education
Civil Society’s Initiatives in Education
Reaching the Unreached: An Unfinished Agenda
Methodological Issues
CHAPTER 2
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROFILE OF AREA OF STUDY
Demographic and Geographic Profile
Social and Economic Profile of Select Districts and Blocks
CHAPTER 3
EDUCATION IN AN UNEQUAL SOCIAL ORDER
Trends of enrolment among Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and General Population by Gender
Education and the Wider Social Order
Gender and Educational Deprivation
Culture of Poverty and Parental Apathy: Myth dispelled
CHAPTER 4
STATE, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
State an Education Reconsidered
Access to Schooling
Quality of Schooling
Incentive Schemes in Schooling
Civil Society’s initiatives in Education: Interventions of Local Bodies
CHAPTER 5
OBSERVATION AND COMMENTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY