Equity and Education in India : Policy, Issues and Challenges

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. 1. Equity and education/D. Parimala. 2. Affirmative action in India: the caste and class conflict/Kavita A. Sharma. 3. Education in contemporary India: a paradox between equity and equality/Gouri Srivastava. 4. Out of school children from rural India: the negative fallout of child rights during the period of globalisation/Y. Josephine. 5. Mainstreaming the marginalized/Manju Narula. 6. Equity education for the scheduled caste (Dalits), Adivasis and religious minorities: case study of West Bengal/Barnali Biswas. 7. Equity and education: a close look/Girish Choudhary. 8. Scheduled caste children in elementary education: social equity concerns/Mona Sedwal. 9. Development and disruption: problematizing tribal education in Independent India/Ruchira Das. 10. Equity in access to higher education in Tamil Nadu: a comparative analysis between general and deprived group SC/ST/A. Jegan. 11. Educational development of Dalit after Independence: a policy perspective/Jyotiranjan Sahoo. 12. Equitable justice in Nepal/Savitree T. Gurung. 13. Rawlsian perspective on socio-political equity and its ramifications on Indian education/Josephine A. and Sudarsan P. 14. The disparities of art in the school curriculum/Susmita Lakhyani. 15. Thetical and antithetical realities of globalization and equity in education/Arbind Kumar Jha. 16. Lifelong learning: education for a knowledge based society/V.P.J. Sambhavi. 17. Inclusive education: focus on visually impaired students in higher education/Bhama Venkataramani. 18. Equity in education: a sociological analysis of right to education bill (2008)/Priya Ranjan. Bibliography. Index.