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Critical sites of inclusion in India's higher education / Papia Sengupta, editor.

9789811682568 (electronic bk.)
9811682569 (electronic bk.)
9789811682551
9811682550

Singapore : Springer, [2022]

©2022

English

1 online resource (xxiii, 191 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

10.1007/978-981-16-8256-8 doi

LA1153 .C75 2022

378.54

This book acquaints the reader to the often invisible-ized practices and policies under the rhetoric of inclusion, through theoretical and empirical analysis. It emphasizes on the complexities of education policies in a multicultural state by identifying the challenges to the idea of inclusion illuminated through judicial interventions, policy-frameworks and everyday experiences of individuals. Higher education is imperative to empowerment in socially stratified societies marred with deep inequalities like India and many other multicultural countries. Disputes over inclusion remains a critical feature in Indian higher education sector, as it is viewed as facilitating access to economic opportunities and providing vertical mobility for individuals belonging to marginalized communities. Higher education empowers, and expands individual horizons of thought and ideas of freedom, dignity, equality, enabling individuals to participate actively in the political-sociological discourses in democratic polity. Therefore, policy makers, political theorists and educationists have been examining the question of inclusion and education as public-good. Contemporary India has witnessed an unprecedented attack on academic freedom, free exchange of ideas and expressions, challenging the very idea of inclusion and inclusiveness.

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