School Education, Pluralism and Marginality
Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Christine Sleeter, S.B. Upadhyay, Arvind Mishra and Sanjay Kumar

Publisher: Orient BlackSwan
ISBN: 978 81 250 4531 1
Publication Date: 2012
Price: Rs. 825
Binding: Hardback
Pages: xviii+480
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Education is an ‘enabling factor’, which facilitates not only economic betterment but also human freedom. However, for the marginalised, basic education remains a challenge not only due to lack of access, but also because the pedagogy of mainstream education alienates the marginalised.


The editors and contributors of School Education, Pluralism and Marginality argue that school education must be conceptualised keeping in mind the material, social, and life experiences of marginalised groups. According to them, pluralism and social inclusion should be the core principles of the pedagogic conceptual framework, practices and processes of school education across the world.


Divided into four sections, this volume brings together international perspectives on education from the USA, UK, Europe, South Africa, New Zealand and Sri Lanka, among others, with a focus on India. It probes into the realities of the formal schooling system and the hegemonies that exclude children of the marginalised communities. It also explores the relationship between school education, labour processes, and differential opportunities and their outcomes. Importantly, the contributors in this volume suggest measures for developing inclusive teaching and learning methods and practices, and present models for culturally responsive and inclusive schooling.


This topical volume will be useful for students and scholars of education, culture studies, gender studies and Dalit studies. It will also be of interest to policy-makers and NGOs working in the area of education.


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CONTENTS

Publisher’s Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

List of Tables and Figures

List of Abbreviations


Introduction

MARGINAL COMMUNITIES, SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND SCHOOLING

1. Achieving Universal Elementary Education

Expanding Access with Equity

R. Govinda and M. Bandyopadhyay


2. Pedagogic Practice and the Violence Against Dalits in Schooling

M. Murali Krishna


3. Educational Progress among the Indian Tamil Minority in the Plantations of Sri Lanka

Angela W. Little


4. School Education of the Marginalised

A Critical Study of TharuTribals’ Education in
West Champaran (Bihar)
Subhash Sharma


5. Muslim Educational Backwardness

Competing Pressures of Secular and Religious Learning
Imtiaz Ahmad


6. Dalits and the Modern Education in Colonial India

Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay


PART II

HEGEMONIES, FORMAL SCHOOLING SYSTEMS, AND THE CHILD

7. Caste, ‘Race’ and Class

A Marxist Critique of Caste Analysis, Critical Race Theory and
Equivalence (or Parallellist) Explanations of Social Inequality
Dave Hill


8. The Marks Race

India’s Dominant Education Regime and New Segmentation
ManabiMajumdar and Jos Mooij


PART III

PLURALISM, CITIZENSHIP AND SCHOOL EDUCATION

9. The Periphery’s Progeny

The South African School and its Relationship to
Youth Identity in Contemporary South Africa
Crain Soudien


10. Negotiating Difference in the Context of Pluralism

Issues in African Schooling and Education
George J. Sefa Dei


11. Educating the Roma

Towards a Human Rights-Based Approach
Lynn Davies


12. Paving the Way to Self-Empowerment through a Rights-based Education

VedranaSpajic-Vrkas


12. Paving the Way to Self-Empowerment through a Rights-based Education

VedranaSpajic-Vrkas


PART IV

DEVELOPING TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT

13. A Culturally Responsive Pedagogy of Relations

Russell Bishop


14. Language and Marginalisation in Primary Education in india

DhirJhingran


15. Navigating Cross-Currents of Standards, Textbooks and Marginality

Christine Sleeter


16. Growing up in the Ashes

Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues Affecting
Indigenous Education
Raymond Nichol


17. Alternative Schooling for Children from the Musahar Community

An Innovative Experiment
Sanjay Kumar and Rafiul Ahmed


Contributors


Index

The Author(s)/ Editor(s)

Christine E. Sleeter is Professor Emerita, College of Education and Professional Studies, California State University, Monterey Bay,Seaside, CA, USA.

Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay is Professor, Department ofHistory, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India.

Arvind K. Mishra is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, Zakir Hussain Center for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Sanjay Kumar is ascholar activist and Secretary, Deshkal Society, New Delhi, India.