Del i serien Education and Society in South Asia

Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Nepal

Educational Transformations and Avenues of Learning

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvKaren Valentin,Karen Valentin,Uma Pradhan

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What is education, and who counts as an 'educated person' amidst competing religious, political, and pedagogical ideologies, which have shaped contemporary educational practices and institutions in Nepal? How have social and political changes, an increasing commodification of education, a continued reliance on foreign aid, and expanded geographical horizons contributed to a reshaping of the educational landscape of Nepal and thereby altered, opened up, and closed avenues of learning available to the Nepali people? Grounded in the intersection between anthropology, sociology, and development studies, and based on rich ethnographic evidence, the essays in this edited volume illuminate educational transformations and avenues of learning in the context of wider social and political changes in Nepal. They capture diverse and competing educational experiences and trajectories; examine the process of construction and transmission of knowledge in different sites within and beyond institutions of formal education; and explore the interconnections between education, state, and society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-07-05
Mått146 x 222 x 23 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEducation and Society in South Asia
Antal sidor334
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780192884756

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Karen Valentin, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Anthropology, School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. She completed her PhD in anthropology from the University of Copenhagen in 2002 and has conducted research in Nepal, India, Vietnam, and Denmark within the fields of education, migration, urban life, and youth since the mid-1990s. Her research has focused on the role of education in interrelated processes of geographical and social mobility in the context of conflict-related migration from Nepal to India and in student migration from Nepal to Denmark. She has been engaged in various research activities in collaboration with Tribhuvan University and Kathmandu University as well as interdisciplinary research on public finance in education in Nepal.Uma Pradhan is Departmental Lecturer, South Asian Studies, University of Oxford, UK. She holds a D.Phil from the University of Oxford and uses ethnographic methods to explore social meanings of education and the larger processes of state-society interaction in its production.

1: Karen Valentin and Uma Pradhan: Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Nepal: Educational Transformations and Avenues of Learning2: Todd John Wallenius: Nepal's New Rich: Class, Differentiation, and Elite Education in Kathmandu3: Shrochis Karki: The Burden of Inherited Aspirations: Education as a Positional Good4: Reidun Faye: Navigating Class Through Education: Urban Poor Families's Choice of Schools5: Krishna P. Adhikari and David N. Gellner: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Dalit Experiences of Primary and Secondary Education in West-Central Nepal6: Cameron David Warner: A Buddhist Educated Person: 'Modern Education' in the Monastery7: Sarah Burack, Geoff Childs, Elizabeth A. Quinn, Jhangchuk Sangmo, and Jean Hunleth: Drawing Out Migration: Rural to Urban Transitions and the Re-imagined Futures of Himalayan School Children8: Karen Valentin: Moving to Learn: New Horizons of Nepali Education9: Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka: Contesting Caste at University Sites: Dalits at Nepal's Universities - Inequality, Belonging, Transformations10: Uma Pradhan: (Re)constructing a 'Good' School: Materials, Affects, and Meanings of Education in Post-earthquake Nepal11: Miranda Weinberg: Locating Multilingual Education in Nepal: Dhimal Language as Local and National?