A multidimensional exploration of urban education in the multiverse of India, this volume takes on an interdisciplinary approach to examine how the idea of the urban and that of urban education are co-constituted and, more specifically, how spatial and educational inequalities in cities intersect. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Shifting Landscapes is a rich, multidimensional exploration of urban education in the multiverse of India, adding value to the growing scholarship on broader connections between urbanisation and education. As cities have continued to develop, their spatial, social and cultural landscapes have also evolved to adapt to the global capitalist needs. Education has been an integral part of these transformations, and the upheavals within the education sector have given rise to privilege and exclusion in schooling and growing marginality of the poor. The volume takes on an interdisciplinary approach to examine how the idea of the urban and that of urban education are co-constituted and, more specifically, how spatial and educational inequalities in cities intersect. The chapters bring together diverse contexts to address the heterogeneity of urban social reality in India and similarly document the changes in educational access, provision, aspirations and politics in several parts of the country. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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'Shifting Landscapes offers a powerful intervention in the growing global urbanisation resulting in new spatial formations. Through an indispensable conversation between education and urban studies, the volume opens up key axes for understanding processes that cut across the Global South. Its robust conceptual richness and multidisciplinary intermixing capture the changes that have occurred in India's educational and urban systems and the critical transformations that are reinforcing dynamics of inclusionexclusion. Throughout the volume, the chapters weave together a story of the present, where the changing landscapes of education intersect with the complex forms that urban life takes. Using a range of methodological strategies, the volume delineates a genealogy of the urban and schooling in India that, amidst the whirlwinds of change, offers alternatives for imagining other educational futures.' Silvia Grinberg, Universidad Nacional de San Martķn 'This book breaks new ground in showing how education structures urban transformations and exclusions in India. It is essential reading for anyone interested in cities, in education and in questions of socio-spatial justice. It skilfully combines historical records, policy evidence and rich ethnography to illuminate how education and urbanisation act as two foundational elements of modernisation. It compellingly demonstrates how changes in educational landscapes have both followed and led the broader neoliberal transformations underway in Indian cities since the mid-1990s. By highlighting the profound social exclusions associated with urban transformations and exploring how struggles to improve educational access might address these injustices, it powerfully underscores the potential of educational reforms to advance socio-spatial justice in cities.' Lalitha Kamath, Tata Institute of Social Sciences 'Shifting Landscapes brings together a rich collection of chapters on the co-constitution of cities and education in diverse regions and cities in India. Beginning with a grounding in the historical context of urban and educational development in India, the authors employ multidisciplinary conceptual and methodological approaches to unpack how economic and social processes are shaping urban and semi-urban spaces and educational sites in specific locales. Focusing on forces of capital accumulation, labour migration, marginalisation, exclusion and resistance, the book is a theoretically and methodologically generative contribution to research that connects social, economic and cultural processes that are redefining cities and urban education globally in context-specific ways essential reading for scholars and students of urban studies, education policy and politics.' Pauline Lipman, University of Illinois Chicago
Papildus informācija
Examines the relationship between evolving urban spaces and the educational transformations within them.
List of maps; Introduction: Education and the Changing Urban Geetha B.
Nambissan, Nandini Manjrekar, Shivali Tukdeo and Indra Sengupta; Part I. City
Histories and Educational Pasts:
1. Urbanising Uttarpara: Philanthropy,
Improvement, Education c. 18461865 Akash Bhattacharya;
2. Schooling the
Working Class: Public Education in Bombay's Mill District in the Early
Twentieth Century Nandini Manjrekar;
3. At a Distance to the City: Jamia
Millia Islamia's Foundational Years Margrit Pernau; Part II. Urban
Transformations, Marginalities and Education:
4. The Changing Urban and
Education in Delhi: Privilege and Exclusion in a Megacity Geetha B.
Nambissan;
5. Relentless Stretching: Urban Transformation and Educational
Inequality Shivali Tukdeo;
6. University and Urban Transformation:
Reflections on an Education City in the National Capital Region Debarati
Bagchi; Part III. Beyond the Metropolis: Urban Spaces, Education and Changing
Aspirations:
7. Changing Urban Education Trends: Case Study of a 'Small Town'
in Madhya Pradesh Sadhna Saxena;
8. 'Ours is a Semi-English Medium School':
Schooling Aspirations and a Neighbourhood School in Banaras Nirmali Goswami;
9. Skills Training, Migration and Employment: The Case of Raichur in Northern
Karnataka Supriya Roychowdhury and Vishaka V. Warrier; Part IV.
Neighbourhoods, Minorities and the Politics of Education:
10. Marginalities,
Education, and the Urban: A Study of a Muslim Neighbourhood in Kolkata Anasua
Chatterjee;
11. Understanding Life and Education in an Urban 'Ghetto' Farah
Farooqui;
12. Urban Marginalisation, Exclusion and Education: The Widows'
Colony in Delhi Yamini Agarwal.
Geetha B. Nambissan retired as a professor from the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research has focused on marginal groups in Indian society such as Dalits and Adivasis and the urban poor. She has also been interested in the social implications of increasing privatisation of education. Additionally, she is one of the associate editors of The Oxford Encyclopaedia of School Reform (2022). Nandini Manjrekar retired as a professor from the School of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her teaching and research interests have been in the areas of gender studies and in sociology and social history of education. She has edited Gender and Education in India: A Reader (2021) and has also written on issues of gender and Indian schooling. She has been involved with various policy research projects on education in different parts of India. She has also worked on executive committees of the Comparative Education Society of India (CESI) and the Indian Association of Women's Studies (IAWS) and was joint editor of the journal Contemporary Education Dialogue. Shivali Tukdeo is a professor at Indira Mahindra School of Education, Mahindra University, Hyderabad. She is a scholar of education policy. The primary focus of her work has been the ways in which policy ideas are constructed, circulated and translated in diverse contexts. Her book India Goes to School: Education Policy and Cultural Politics (2019) looks at the entanglements of policy in recent decades as transnational and extra-national actors along with the state have become partners in producing and furthering policy agendas. Indra Sengupta is a senior research fellow and the head of the India Research Programme at the German Historical Institute London. She is a historian of knowledge practices in colonial contexts. She has jointly edited with Daud Ali the volume Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Institutions in Colonial India (2011).
