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Imagining a Socialist, Democratic and Secular Society through Possibilities of a Common School System in India

Ravi Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, South Asian University, Delhi, India

15th October 2013

A Common School System (CSS) had been a long-standing demand in Indian educational discourse since it was recommended in 1966 by the...

State, Class and Critical Framework of Praxis: The Missing Link in Indian Educational Debates

Ravi Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, South Asian University, Delhi, India

15th October 2013

The author argues that education needs to be located within a larger understanding of state and class, if radical changes like the Common...

Global Managerial Education Reforms and Teachers: Emerging Policies, Controversies and Issues In Developing Contexts

Antoni Verger, Department of Sociology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain et al

14th October 2013

This volume is an attempt to understand, from an empirically grounded perspective, the nature, scope and dimensions of the new global trend...

Not free to teach: the consequences of neo-liberal education policy in Maharashtra and England

Mary Compton, Past President, National Union of Teachers, UK

14th October 2013

This dissertation looks at the education systems in the state of Maharashtra, India, and in England, in the context of the globalisation of...

Privatisation vs the Public Good

Salim Vally, associate professor of education and director of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation at the University of Johannesburg & Enver Motala, researcher at the Nelson Mandela Institute for Education and Rural Development at the University of Fort Hare

14th October 2013

The article assesses the damaging effects of the turn towards privatisation in education in South Africa on public schools and on education...

The Schools Chicago’s Students Deserve: Research-based proposals to strengthen elementary and secondary education in the Chicago Public Schools

Carol Caref, Chicago Teachers Union & Pavlyn Jankov, Chicago Teachers Union

14th October 2013

The Schools Chicago’s Students Deserve is a Chicago Teachers Union document which reframes the discussion dominated by “education reformers...

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