School Participation in Rural India
School Participation in Rural India

Author: Jean Drèze

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of school participation in rural north India, based on a recent household survey which includes detailed information on school characteristics. School participation, especially among girls, responds to a wide range of variables, including parental education and motivation, social background, dependency ratios, work opportunities, village development, teacher postings, mid-day meals and infrastructural quality. Mid-day meals are particularly effective: the provision of a mid-day meal in the local school roughly halves the proportion of girls excluded from the schooling system. School quality matters, though it is not related in a simple way to specific inputs.

GIRLS' EDUCATION AND EMPOWERMENT IN RURAL AREAS
GIRLS' EDUCATION AND EMPOWERMENT IN RURAL AREAS

Author: DR PAMELA DASGUPTA

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2024-09-12

Total Pages: 280

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Empowerment means making someone equipped to bring about a change in the situations of inequality and discrimination. It is a process of challenging the existing power relations and of gaining greater control over the sources of power. The girls belonging to rural areas have to face community deprivation as well as various negative and suppressive forces. The study aims to explore the situation of the girls residing in Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal. It is important to investigate the decision-making capacity of girls and how education equips them with the attitudes and skills required to negotiate the challenging situations within their own families, community, market and workplace. The book unravels their perceptions, present status and experiences of schooling and beyond. It focuses on their path after schooling and its benefits drawn from education.

Women’s Education and Empowerment in Rural India
Women’s Education and Empowerment in Rural India

Author: Jyotsna Jha

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-20

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0429647743

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This is a book about understanding women’s empowerment and pathways as well as roadblocks to women’s economic empowerment in rural India, as understood through an evaluation-based research of a state-funded social sector programme located in the education department – Mahila Samakhya (MS) – in Bihar, one of the socially and educationally most underdeveloped Indian states. The book presents findings of the three-year research that adopted a mixed-methods approach and evaluated the impact of MS on various facets of empowerment of women coming from the most marginalized communities. The study, therefore, tries to go beyond evaluating the MS programme and uses the research findings and insights to raise certain critical issues pertaining to social policy planning and implementation, especially in the context of women’s education and empowerment. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

The Changing Identity of Rural India
The Changing Identity of Rural India

Author: Elisabetta Basile

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 8190757024

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The book explores the pattern of rural development in contemporary India from a multidisciplinary and historical perspective. The essays overcome the limits of disciplinary approaches to provide a comprehensive analysis of the processes of change and growth at work in the Indian countryside and to review the social and cultural dynamics that have led to the contemporary situation. Providing an analysis of the economic, political and social changes experienced in rural India, they examine the interactions between actors and institutions at different levels. Some contributions focus on the impact of state policies on rural development and on the rationale of capitalistic expansion in the Indian countryside, while others analyse how the changes are promoted, adopted and resisted at the local level. The general issue raised in the book refers to the assessment of the nature and working of contemporary Indian rural economy. In order to analyse the complexity of the rural economy and the forms it takes in different Indian contexts, this issue has been deconstructed considering, in turn, the process of rural change, the impact of rural growth on working and living conditions, and finally the categories of the inhabitants of rural areas and the construction of their identities in colonial and post-colonial rural India.

The Right to Education in India
The Right to Education in India

Author: Florian Matthey-Prakash

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-08-22

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0199097054

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What does it mean for education to be a fundamental right, and how may children benefit from it? Surprisingly, even when the right to education was added to the Indian Constitution as Article 21A, this question barely received any attention. The book identifies justiciability—or, more broadly, enforceability—as the most important feature of Article 21A, meaning that children and their parents must be provided with means to effectively claim their right from the State; otherwise, it would remain a ‘right’ only on paper. The book highlights how lack of access to the Indian judiciary means that the constitutional promise of justiciability remains unfulfilled. It deals with the possible alternative means the State may provide for the poor to claim the benefits under Article 21A, and identifies the grievance-redress mechanism created by the ‘Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009’ as a potential system of enforcement. Even though this system is found to be deficient, the book concludes with an optimistic outlook, hoping that rights advocates may, in the future, focus on improving such mechanisms for legal empowerment.

A Better Future
A Better Future

Author: Jacqueline Bhabha

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-09-17

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1108752314

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Policy makers, advocates and scholars have long concentrated on the importance of equal access to primary and secondary education as a foundation for a democratic and just society. Despite the growing importance of higher and specialist education in an increasingly technological and skill-focused global market, tertiary education has attracted much less attention. And yet, universities and colleges are epicentres of egregious disparities in access, which impinge on traditionally marginalized communities, such as racial minorities, migrants, indigenous populations, and people with disabilities. By drawing attention to this issue and assembling first-rate material from scholars and policy makers across the globe, this book performs an invaluable service for those interested in understanding and fighting a highly significant violation of educational opportunity and social justice.

The Progress of Education in India
The Progress of Education in India

Author: Vani Kant Borooah

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-07-04

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 3319548557

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This book quantitatively analyses data to demonstrate India's recent progress in the education sector. India, as one of the world's fastest growing economies, currently enjoys what is termed a 'demographic dividend' meaning that, compared to most other countries, it has a relatively young working age population. In order to exploit this advantage, the author argues that India needs to make this young population economically productive through education. The chapters in the book address whether India has succeeded in doing so, both in terms of numbers educated and the quality of their education. The author draws on specialist surveys conducted by India's National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) in 2008 and 2014 which examine the state of education in India.

Measuring Inclusive Education
Measuring Inclusive Education

Author: Chris Forlin

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2014-10-29

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1784411450

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Volume 3 of International Perspectives on Inclusive Education focuses on measuring inclusive education from a range of perspectives. It is grounded upon a review of international conceptualizations of inclusive education and ways in which different systems are measuring its impact and effectiveness.

Understanding Development
Understanding Development

Author: Swapnendu Banerjee

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 8132224558

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This book addresses topical development issues in India, ranging from land acquisition, poverty alleviation programs, labor market issues, the public-private partnership (PPP) model and fiscal federalism. It offers an Indian perspective on the dynamics of economic development and the impact the country’s legal and public policies have on it. Economic development is a dynamic concept – old problems are solved, while at the same time new issues come to the fore. The emergence of these issues is unique to the development experience of an economy. The book includes sixteen recent contributions and is divided into four sections: law and contract; trade and foreign aid; issues in public economics; and the social sector and poverty alleviation. The chapters reflect on a number of development issues which were of concern for India in the recent past and will be important in her future development initiatives such as land acquisition, agricultural productivity, employment, protection of intellectual property rights, corruption, public-private partnership, regional development, poverty alleviations programs like the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and the training of self-help group members, health and education of women, to name a few. The book is a valuable reference resource for policy practitioners and researchers working on the economics of development with special focus on developing economies.