Right to Education and Schooling
Contents: Introduction. 1. A glance at the centenary debate: compulsory education/Nirmala Shah. 2. Access and equity in elementary education in India: policy and practices/Madhumita Bandyopadhyay. 3. Right to education: a delusional right-where knowledge is not free/Depsikha Mishra and Abhishek Naik. 4. Contested curricula: an exploration into the issue of common curriculum for boys and girls (1870-1974)/Chandra Lekha Singh. 5. Implementation of RTE Act 2009: Teacher’s commitments/Isha Khurana and A.K. Sharma. 6. Teacher eligibility test and teacher’s quality/Neelam Dalal. 7. Education as fundamental right for economically weaker section: a study in a school in Delhi/Mamta. 8. Corporal punishment, policy law: voices from the classroom/Deepa Idnani. 9. Application of principal-agent theory to school management system/Jayanti Kumari. 10. Far from realities of life: schooling as a touchstone of endemic alienation/Sajjad Ahmad. 11. Teaching of social sciences: a qualitative study in an elite school in Delhi/Mahima Kaur. 12. Learning in an alternative school in Karnataka: students and Aacharayas perspectives on education in Prbodihini Gurukula/Sundaresha D.S. 13. Silent exclusion in school a threat to RTE: a case study of Madhya Pradesh/Pankaj Das. 14. Perspectives on education and globalization: policy and implication/Bhawana Arora. Index.
Right to Education and Schooling explores critical thinking around the right to Education Act (RTE) in its different facets ranging from its historical antecedents to the contemporary times. The various provisions of the Act have been discussed, apart from its implementation and effectiveness. The book broadens the horizon around the Act, and draws from a range of empirical studies which will help in improving good practice for practitioners and researchers. (jacket)
