School Education in India

Since Independence in 1947, there has been an enormous expansion of school education in India. The school segment has adopted and integrated Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve quality and productivity in education. However, the existing inequalities prevailing in school education system have led to digital divide. Other problems and challenges facing the system include outdated curriculum, pedagogy, lack of infrastructure, dropouts, teachers' absenteeism, unequal access, lax administration and slow speed of vocationalisation of education. This volume contains 31 papers, authored by the scholars in the field of education, which focus on various dimensions of school education in India.