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

• Main Author: Valentin, Karen (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP-Information Age Pub. Inc., 2006.
• Series: Education policy in practice.
• Subjects: Education and state > Nepal > Kathmandu.; Education > Social aspects > Nepal > Kathmandu.; Poor > Nepal > Kathmandu.; Education > Educational Policy & Reform > Federal Legislation.; Educational strategies and policy.; Central, national, federal government policies.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781918116236
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-60752-772-5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 pages).

"Schooled for the future?" offers an ethnographically rich account about squatter families in Kathmandu and their struggles to improve their living conditions and create a better future through education. Examining how people - children and adults - experience and respond to policy initiat...