School Education Pluralism and Marginality : Comparative Perspectives

Contents List of Tables and Figures Publishers Acknowledgements Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I Marginal Communities Social Exclusion and Schooling 1 Achieving Universal Elementary Education Expanding Access with EquityR Govinda and Madhumita Bandyopadhyay 2 Pedagogic Practice and the Violence against Dalits in SchoolingM Murali Krishna 3 Educational Progress among the Indian Tamil Minority in the Plantations of Sri LankaAngela W Little 4 School Education of the Marginalised A Critical Study of Tharu Tribals Education in West Champaran BiharSubhash Sharma  5 Muslim Educational Backwardness Competing Pressures of Secular and Religious LearningImtiaz Ahmad 6 Dalits and the Modern Education in Colonial IndiaShashi 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 InequalityDave Hill 8 The Marks Race Indias Dominant Education Regime and New SegmentationManabi Majumdar and Jos Mooij Part III Pluralism Citizenship and School Education 9 The Peripherys Progeny The South African School and its Relationship to Youth Identity in Contemporary South AfricaCrain Soudien 10 Negotiating Difference in the Context of Pluralism Issues in African Schooling and EducationGeorge J Sefa Dei 11 Educating the Roma Towards a Human Rights-Based ApproachLynn Davies 12 Paving the Way to Self-Empowerment through a Rights-based EducationVedrana Spajic-Vrkas Part IV Developing Teaching and Learning Methods The Social Context 13 A Culturally Responsive Pedagogy of RelationsRussell Bishop 14 Language and Marginalisation in Primary Education in IndiaDhir Jhingran 15 N Navigating Cross-Currents of Standards Textbooks and MarginalityChristine Sleeter 16 Growing up in the Ashes Theoretical and Pedagogical Issues Affecting Indigenous EducationRaymond Nichol 17 Alternative Schooling for Children from the Musahar Community An Innovative ExperimentSanjay Kumar and Rafiul Ahmed Contributors Index Education is an enabling factor which facilitates not only economic betterment but also human freedom However for the marginalised- Dalits and tribals in India the Mapuche in Chile the M&257;ori in Aotearoa New Zealand as well as women in most parts of the world-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 They strongly argue that pluralism and social inclusion should be the core principles of the pedagogic conceptual framework practices and processes of school education across the worldDivided 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 relationships between school education labour processes and differential opportunities and their outcomes Importantly the contributions in this volume suggest measures for developing inclusive teaching and learning methods and practices and present models for culturally responsive and inclusive schoolingThis 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  500 pp.…