Exploring Education and Democratization in South Asia

Tania Saeed is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan.Radhika Iyengar is Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA.Matthew A. Witenstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Administration at University of Dayton, USA.Erik Jon Byker is a Full Professor in the Cato College of Education and Honors College at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Illuminating the Shadow Education Mechanism of Neoliberal Governmentality in Bangladesh.- 3 Competition Exams and Topper Praise in India: A Media Case Study in Educational (In)equality.- 4 Populist Visions and the Issue of Exclusion: An Exploration of Educational Policy Reforms in India and Pakistan.- 5 Missing Girls on the Margins? Equity, Assessment, and Evaluation in India’s New Education Policy.- 6 Unregulated Private Tutoring in India: Educational Inequalities Engendered by the “Light But Tight” National Education Policy 2020.- 7 Federalism in Nepal: Early Implications for School Governance.- 8 Higher Education Reforms: Unfulfilled Promise of Decentralization in India.- 9 Neoliberal Politics of Education Reforms in India: A Case of De Facto Privatization in University of Delhi Through NEP 2020.- 10 Sites of Struggle as Sites of Learning: Student Activism as Counter-Hegemonic Resistance to the Neoliberal University in Pakistan.- 11 Mobilizing for Justice: Social Media as a Transformational Tool for Student Activism in Pakistan.- 12 Democracy and a Quality Education in South Asia: A Conclusion.