Education, Democracy and Development Equity and Inclusion

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction/N.V. Varghese and Madhumita Bandyopadhyay. I. Education and Democracy: 2. South Africa’s Experiment with Democracy and Its Implications for Education: The Balance Sheet after 20 Years/Crain Soudien. 3. Building Peace and Democracy amidst Conflict and Violence: Lessons of Colombia’s Escuela Nueva Model/Thomas F. Luschei. 4. Painting Profiles of National Futures with Six Artful Brushes: Democracy, Development, Education, Inclusion, Equity and Sustainability/H.S. Bhola. 5. Education, Global Citizenship and Democracy in Post-2015 Landscapes/Kenneth King. 6. Democracy, Deprivation and Dispossession: Multiple Narratives of Democracy in North India/Badri Narayan. II. Education and Development: 7. Higher Education and Development in Africa/Teboho Moja. 8. The Sustainable Learning Paradigm: Global Case Studies to Inform and New Models to Guide 21st Century Development and Democracy/Judith Parker. 9. Vocational Education and the Challenge of Development in South Africa/Volker Wedekind. 10. The Employability of Tertiary-Level Graduates in India/Santosh Mehrotra. 11. Medical Education, Inclusiveness, Democracy and Development in Contemporary India/Roger Jeffery. III. Education and Equity: 12. Realising Rights to Education: Is Privatising Educational Services Equitable, Democratic, Inclusive and Sustainable?/Keith Lewin. 13. Challenges of Inclusion: How are India’s Schools Faring?/Praveen Jha, Satadru Sikdar and Pooja Parvati. 14. Equity and Education in India: The Definitive Decade of the 1950s/S. Irfan Habib. 15. Democratic Inequalities: The Dilemma of Elementary Education in India/Vimala Ramachandran. IV. Right to Education: 16. Politics of School Location in Post-Reform India:The Exclusion and Inequality/R. Govinda and A. Mathew. 17. Equity, Access and Quality in Basic Education: A Review/ Shireen Motala. 18. Comparative Analysis of Large-Scale Policies on Universalisation of Elementary Education: Case Studies on Conditional Grants Scheme,Nigeria and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, India/Radhika Iyengar, Angelique R. Mahal and Fatima Ahmad. 19. Contemplating Democratic Education in a Migratory World/ Sandra J. Schmidt. 20. Rights, Entitlements and Education Inclusion for Mobile Pastoralist Children in India/Caroline Dyer. 21. An Invisible Presence “On the Move”: The Subjective Constructions of High School Youth in a South African City/Aslam Fataar. Index.…