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The Elementary Education System in India: Exploring Institutional Structures, Processes and Dynamics
Author(s): Rashmi Sharma (Editor), Vimala Ramachandran
- Publisher: Routledge India
- Publication Date: 9 Mar. 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 368 pages
- ISBN-10: 041548328X
- ISBN-13: 9780415483285
Book Description
This book focuses on the failure of elementary education since Independence, which is usually seen as the result of simplified phrases like ‘lack of political will’, ‘because of poverty’, etc. This book looks at the system as a whole: infrastructure, quality of teaching, privatisation, nutritional incentives, curriculum. It contains samples from two states namely Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh.
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About the Author
Rashmi Sharma is in the Indian Administrative Service, and as an independent scholar, has written extensively on education and decentralisation.
Vimala Ramachandran is Managing Director, Educational Resource Unit (ERU) Consultants Pvt Ltd, New Delhi.
