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Schooled for the Future? Educational Policy and Everyday Life Among Urban Squatters in Nepal Paperback - 2006

by Karen Valentin (Editor)

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"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 interconnect-edness 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.

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  • Title Schooled for the Future? Educational Policy and Everyday Life Among Urban Squatters in Nepal
  • Author Karen Valentin (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Information Age Publishing
  • Publication date 2006-01-05
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781593114268 / 1593114265
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.47 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.19 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Education
  • Category Education / Teaching
  • Library of Congress subjects Education and state - Nepal - Kathmandu, Education - Social aspects - Nepal -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005029947
  • Dewey Decimal Code 379.549
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