Beyond Inclusion (eBook, ePUB)

The Practice of Equal Access in Indian Higher Education
Redaktion: Deshpande, Satish; Zacharias, Usha

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In India, two critical aspects of public policy - social justice and higher education - have witnessed unprecedented expansion in recent years. While several programmes have been designed by the State to equalise access to higher education and implement formal inclusion, discrimination based on caste, tribe, gender, and rural location continues to exist. Focusing on the concrete experiences of these programmes, this book explores the difficulties and dilemmas that follow formal inclusion, and seeks to redress the disproportionate emphasis on principles rather than practice in the quest for equal access to higher education in India.

Offering new perspectives on the debates on social mobility and merit, this volume examines a broad spectrum of educational courses, ranging from engineering, medicine and sciences to social work, humanities and the social sciences that cover all levels of higher education from undergraduate degrees to post-doctoral research. It points to various sources of social exclusion by studying a cross-section of national, elite, subaltern, and sub-regional institutions across the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. Closely involved with the implementation and evaluation of affirmative action programmes, the contributors to the volume highlight the paradoxical 'sectionalisation' of reserved candidates, the daunting challenge of combating discrimination.

Understanding the need to look beyond formal inclusion to enable substantive change, this important volume will be essential reading for scholars and teachers of sociology, education, social work, economics, public administration, and political science, besides being of great interest to policymakers and organisations concerned with education and discrimination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317810193
• Artikelnr.: 40020571

Autorenporträt

Satish Deshpande is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Usha Zacharias is Associate Professor of Communication, Westfield State College, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Beyond
Inclusion Satish Deshpande. 1. Caste Quotas and Formal Inclusion in Indian
Higher Education Satish Deshpande 2. The Polarity between the 'Few and the
Many' in Indian Higher Education Mrinalini Sebastian 3. Affirmative Action
in Three Dream Institutions Ganesh Devy 4. Reservations in Medical
Education in Maharashtra: An Empirical Study Vandana Dandekar 5. Bridging
the Rural-Urban Gap: Experiments in Engineering Education in Punjab Ranjit
Singh Ghuman and Davinder Kumar Madaan 6. Defying the Odds: The Triumphs
and Tragedies of Dalit and Adivasi Students in Higher Education Anoop Kumar
Singh 7. Quota's Children: The Perils of Getting Educated N. Sukumar 8.
Beyond Contested Categories: An Experiment of the Ford Foundation
International Fellowships Programme for Social Return through Affirmative
Action Sony Pellissery, Vivek Mansukhani and Neera Handa 9. Confronting
Social Exclusion: A Critical Review of the CREST Experience D. D.
Nampoothiri 10. To Race with the Able? Soft Skills and the Psychologisation
of Marginality Usha Anna Zacharias. About the Editors. Notes on
Contributors. Index