Schooled for the future? : educational policy and everyday life among urban squatters in Nepal

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Main Author: Valentin, Karen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Greenwich, Conn. : IAP-Information Age Pub., c2005.
Series:(Education policy in practice: critical cultural studies)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a policy perspective on the paradox of schooling
  • Exploring Ramaghat : social differentiation in the context of urban squatting
  • Education and nation building in Nepal : an historical perspective
  • Dealing with diversity and hierarchy : schooling and social exclusion
  • Dreams and realities : the struggle for a better life
  • "We want education" : children's rights and the appropriation of egalitarian ideas
  • The "schooled person" : negotiating caste and generation
  • Conclusion : education policy and the paradoxes of school social exclusion.