Schooled for the Future? Educational Policy and Everyday Life Among Urban Squatters in Nepal (Hc)

Anglický jazyk

Schooled for the Future? Educational Policy and Everyday Life Among Urban Squatters in Nepal (Hc)

Vydavateľstvo: Information Age Publishing
Rok vydania: 2006
Formát: Hardback
Rozmer: 240 x 161 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781593114275

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O knihe

"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
initiatives aimed at improving their life the book discusses the paradoxes inherent in modern schooling. Firstly, schooling promises social
justice and equal opportunities, yet it also contributes to the reproduction of social inequalities by strengthening existing class divisions and
by producing a new category of unschooled people. Secondly, within the context of the family, schooling is attributed an economic and symbolic
value, but it is also considered a potential threat to family values based on generational hierarchy and caste identity. Through detailed
ethnographic accounts the author demonstrates how urban poor families experience the schooling process ambivalently, both as a source of
alienation and inferiority as well as a source of self-esteem and sense of progress. Acknowledging the interconnectedness between global,
national and local forces framing and informing processes of education the book, thus, sheds light on the complex relationship between educational
policy and everyday life experiences of the urban poor in Kathmandu, a hitherto understudied segment of the Nepalese society.