Educational crisis and reform : perspectives from South Asia / edited by Abbas Rashid and Irfan Muzaffar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rashid, Abbas (Executive director), editor.

Muzaffar, Irfan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state--South Asia.

Education and state.

Educational change--South Asia.

Educational change.

Education--South Asia.

Education.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 545 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Karachi, Pakistan : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

More than a third of out-of-school children of the world live in South Asia. The promise of universal quality education for all children of this region has so far been elusive. The crises in education faced by different countries of the region differ in their nature as well as import. Notwithstanding the differences, there are also some common denominators, such as the burgeoning population and growth of private sector in mass education. Along with the growing list of problems that South Asian countries must resolve, the pressure for delivering better quality education for all in the region is escalating, in line with the imperatives of a global knowledge economy. But reforming education is not just a technical issue. In order for education reforms to gain momentum, the media, the general populace, and members of the policy-making community need to be more informed about the various dimensions of the educational challenges faced by South Asian societies. The book is a modest attempt to respond to this need. The contributions in this volume are research-based and strive at providing a deeper understanding of the various dimensions of the education crises as well as responses to them. Among the aims of this book are also to reach out to an audience outside of the academy. While it seeks to provide insights into country-specific initiatives, readers of this volume will also be able to help those concerned with and about education to think more clearly about the challenges of education reform in their own particular context. Book jacket.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.India's Education Crisis: The Effects of Neo-liberal Policies on the Poor and the Middle Classes / Marie Lall

2.Improving the Public Sector Schools in Pakistan: Strategies for Introducing Voice into the System / Faisal Bari

3.School Management Committees in Pakistan: Mobilizing Communities for Education? / Ayesha A. Awan

4.The Programme on School Improvement: A Participatory as Opposed to a Bureaucratic Approach / Wilfred J. Perera

5.The Politics of Citizenship and Difference in Sri Lankan Schools / Birgitte Refslund Sørensen

6.Reforming Gender Inequities in Education: Pakistan's Girls Middle School Stipend / Fareeha Zafar

7.Transforming Public Schools: Impact of the CRI Programme on Child Learning in Pakistan / Reehana R. Raza

8.Situating Multilingual Education in Nepali Context / Sushan Acharya

9.W(h)ither the Teaching Profession in India / Ajay Sharma

Note continued: 10.Teacher Education Continuum: A Case for Continuing Professional Development / Anjum Halai

11.A Conceptual Framework for Measuring the Quality of Pakistan's Higher Education System / Pervez Hoodbhoy

12.The Missing Dimension: Adult Literacy in South Asia / Seher Ahmad

13.Quality, Relevance, and Equity: Negotiating an Educational Development Strategy in Bangladesh / James H. Williams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199400294

0199400296

OCLC:

914183944

Publisher Number:

(YBP)100611169