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Educational Deprivation of the Tribes

Vol. 58, Issue No. 35, 02 Sep, 2023
Namrata Singha Roy, Nivedita Mandal, Ratan Khasnabis

The paper examines the nature of tribal deprivation, with specific focus on the issue of education. The research delves into the supply– and the demand–side factors, which determined the state of education within a region. Reaffirming the deprivation faced by the tribal communities, the study identifies specific factors that cause marginalisation. It points to the failure of the uniform tribal development programme to deal with the context–specific problems and thereby achieving the targeted results. The paper suggests the importance of not assuming the homogeneity of tribal societies, and need for public policies that are sensitive to this fact, in order to translate the goal of empowerment into a reality.

On the Global Education Monitoring Report 2023

Vol. 58, Issue No. 34, 26 Aug, 2023

Taking stock of the shifts in education and technology in an increasingly digitised world is a necessity.

Does Access to Educational Institutions Signify Gaining Quality Education?

Vol. 58, Issue No. 30, 29 Jul, 2023
Parul Gazta, Jagdish Jadhav

The Annual Status of Education Report has been instrumental in understanding the education trends in rural India. The ASER 2022, published after a gap of four years, draws attention to the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic on the primary and middle school education. While an increase in the enrolment rate is an encouraging observation, declining foundational learning abilities is a grim development. Drawing inferences from the major findings of the report, this article suggests the need for renewed collective efforts from the state, teachers, parents, and neighbourhood community to meet the new educational challenges.

 

Modern Challenges to the Dravidian Movement: The Question of Access and Quality of Higher Education in Tamil Nadu

Vol. 58, Issue No. 29, 22 Jul, 2023
Tamil Nadu has one the highest g ross e nrolment r at io in h igher e ducation among major states in India at 51.4%. These impressive numbers can be traced to multiple schemes of successive Dravidian g overnments that placed a firm emphasis on caste-based social justice, while also focusing on economic development and mobility. However, the abject quality of h igher e ducation i nstitutions in Tamil Nadu casts a serious shadow on the legacy of the Dravidian Movement. Increased privati s ation, low employability of graduates , and poor quality of h igher e ducation i nstitutions (HEIs) further exacerbate wage disparities and income inequalities, taking away the benefits of caste-based reservations, among other legacies of the Dravidian m ovement. This article analyses the shortcomings of the h igher e ducation model in Tamil Nadu and shows how increased access to higher education does little to acknowledge the socio-economic processes of caste in Tamil Nadu.

Overlapping Marginalities

Vol. 58, Issue No. 29, 22 Jul, 2023
Abdul Shaban, Ayona Datta, Sheema Fatima

The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that excessive reliance on digital technologies for delivery of education can sharpen the inequalities in learning. In Bhiwandi, both a metropolitan and a digital periphery in Maharashtra, such unequal learning opportunities further marginalised the citizens of the locality. Female students additionally faced several challenges. Among the many freedoms upended during the pandemic was the spatial mobility, offered by the physical access to the colleges. Where educational institutions failed to effectively adapt to the situation, undergraduate Muslim women experienced a lack of digital access and poor quality of learning.

Papering over the Cracks

Vol. 58, Issue No. 29, 22 Jul, 2023

The multidimensional poverty index conceals more than it reveals.

Gendered Suffering and Informality in Indian Academia

Vol. 58, Issue No. 28, 15 Jul, 2023
Mehak Majeed

Secure employment in higher education is increasingly difficult to find, especially for women.

Homo Sapiens to Homo Digitalis

Vol. 58, Issue No. 24, 17 Jun, 2023
Debabrata Das

Through a systematic call for massive corporate investment in the education sector and a greater emphasis on the online mode, education sector is manoeuvring the revival of the enfeebled capitalist system. To analyse this interrelationship, we require studying the complex network of power and hegemony within a given society.

Teaching and Learning Indian Knowledge Systems

Vol. 58, Issue No. 19, 13 May, 2023

Acknowledging diverse sources of Indian knowledge will enrich the curriculum.

Why Do Poorer Kids Not Move Ahead Faster?

Vol. 58, Issue No. 19, 13 May, 2023
Anirudh Krishna, Sujeet Kumar

Can a poorer individual who has a particular talent realistically hope to move up in life because they have this particular talent? This proposition is put to the test by interviewing more than 800 young individuals in rural and urban Bihar and Delhi. Findings show that these individuals have had virtually no opportunity to be tested for any hidden talent, be it a talent for athletics, for singing, chess, art or mathematics. Not one of these young people has ever competed at the national, state, or district level. The poverty of their circumstances is made worse by this poverty of opportunity. Millions lose out on alternative careers. Future champions remain unidentified and unrewarded. Something better is necessary to make equality of opportunity less of a slogan and more of a reality.

When a Student Drops Out

Vol. 58, Issue No. 14, 08 Apr, 2023

An alarming number of dropouts suggests an inadequate implementation of the reservation policy.

Imagining a New Ethic of Sociality

Vol. 58, Issue No. 13, 01 Apr, 2023
Anagha Ingole

The works of three non-Brahmin educated women from 19th-century western India are read against dominant historiographies of womanhood. It is argued that these women resist being interpreted as evidence of liberal enlightenment thinking in anti-caste social reform, or as regional dissenting voices to incipient nationalist developments that place the spiritual–material binary at the centre of the women’s question. Rather, their works are read as intellectual resources that imagined a new ethic of sociality, using an embodied reason to alter the imagination of the “inner spiritual” by first destabilising it and then reimagining it. The paper locates the invention of the spiritual–material binary outside of anti-colonial motives via these women, making the articulation of a separation between the spiritual and the material untenable.

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