Routledge handbook of education in India : debates, practices, and policies / edited by Krishna Kumar

List of figures. List of tables. Contributors. Preface. Introduction Krishna Kumar Part I: Logic of Access 1. Compulsion to Educate Archana Mehendale 2. Education in Urban Areas Nalini Juneja 3. Institutional Diversity and Quality Padma M. Sarangapani 4. Examination for Elimination: Celebrating Fear and Penalising Failure Disha Nawani Part II: Curriculum and Teaching 5. Mind the (Language-Medium) Gap Chaise LaDousa 6. Science and Mathematics Teaching in Schools and Colleges Shobhit Mahajan 7. The Teaching of Social Sciences in Schools and Colleges in India Hari Vasudevan 8. The Uses and Teaching of History Kumkum Roy 9. An Experiment in Rural Education: The Revival of Anand Niketan Nidhi Gaur Part III: Training for Professions 10. The Making of India as an Engineering Society Milind Sohoni 11. Discourse of Teacher Training in India Latika Gupta 12. Management Education in India: How far have we come? Pankaj Chandra Part IV: Universities and Society 13. Indian Higher Education: 21st-Century Challenges Philip G. Altbach 14. Gendered Access and Participation: Unequal subject choices in Indian Higher Education Karuna Chanana 15. Caste Quotas and Formal Inclusion in Indian Higher Education Satish Deshpande 16. Tribes and Higher Education in India Virginius Xaxa Part V: Underbelly 17. Active Partners: Rethinking the Educated Unemployed in India Craig Jeffrey and Jane Dyson 18. Access, Success and Excess: Debating Shadow Education in India Manabi Majumdar 19. Understanding Vyapam Krishna Kumar. Index