Education for the Excluded Children
Contents: Preface. 1. Policy crisis in higher education: reform or deform?/Jandhyala B.G. Tilak. 2. Betraying the constitution: tailoring higher education to the market/Madhu Prasad. 3. Access to schooling, how many get excluded? Methods of estimating excluded or out of school children in India/P. Geetha Rani. 4. Education and underprivileged people in India: (access, status and quality)/Kailas Thaware. 5. Right to education and migrant children--challenges and possible solutions/Pravin Mahajan. 6. Education: affirmative action in India and the United States/Kailas Thaware and Artatrana Ratha. 7. Right to education and women\'s empowerment/O.P. Shukla. 8. Educational policy, social context and the development of scheduled tribe children in India/Jyoti Ranjan Sahoo and Dhaneswar Bhoi. 9. Poverty and tribal education in India: with reference to Rajasthan state/S.N. Tripathy. 10. Right to education and the Dalit children/Ujwala P. Bhadange. 11. Education and exclusion of tribes in Odisha: status report from tribal Kandhamal/Govinda Chandra Panda. 12. Education to combat child labour/S.N. Tripathy. Annexure.
The present work documents the growth of primary education in India and particularly the extent of access to education by the outreach communities. It provides a glimpse on the background, the trend of development in the Indian states with regard to primary education, the problem encountered, the policies adopted from time to time to penetrate the light of education in the outreach and excluded communities. The study has been made on the basis of both primary and secondary sources of data collected from different reports, census data, books, journals. (jacket)
The present work documents the growth of primary education in India and particularly the extent of access to education by the outreach communities. It provides a glimpse on the background, the trend of development in the Indian states with regard to primary education, the problem encountered, the policies adopted from time to time to penetrate the light of education in the outreach and excluded communities. The study has been made on the basis of both primary and secondary sources of data collected from different reports, census data, books, journals. (jacket)
