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

"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...

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Main Author Valentin, Karen (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : IAP-Information Age Pub. Inc., 2006.
SeriesEducation 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
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918116236
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-772-5
Physical Description1 online resource (224 pages).

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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.

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