A01=Monisha Bajaj
Author_Monisha Bajaj
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- ISBN 9781441176745
- Publication Date: 24 Nov 2011
- Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This focused, original work examines human rights education in India and offers key insights into larger international educational policy discussions. "Schooling for Social Change" offers fresh perspectives on the emerging field of human rights education in India. 60 years after independence, the Indian schooling system remains unequal. Building on over a year of fieldwork, including interviews and focus groups with policymakers, educators, parents and students, Monisha Bajaj examines different understandings of human rights education at the levels of policy, pedagogy and practice. She provides an in-depth study of the origins and effects of the Institute of Human Rights Education, a non-governmental program that operates in over 4,000 schools in India. This enlightening book offers an instructive case study of how international mandates and grassroots activism can work together. Bajaj shows how the Institute of Human Rights Education has gained significant momentum for school-based adoption, textbook reform, and policy changes in a nation-state still struggling to ensure universal access to education.
"Schooling for Social Change" provides a wealth of analysis from the frontlines of education reform and will be of interest to all those working in international and comparative education, human rights, and South Asian development.
Monisha Bajaj is Assistant Professor of Education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College, Columbia University.
