School Education in India: Market, State and Quality
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: Education in India between the state and market - concepts framing the new discourse: quality, efficiency, accountability -- Part I Conceptual papers -- 1 Public, private and education in India: a historical overview -- 2 Markets, state and quality in education: reflections on genuine educational markets -- 3 Normative articulations of the aims of education: an exploratory analysis -- 4 Regulatory state and the diversified private -- 5 Recovering the practice and profession of teaching -- 6 Notes on quality in education -- Part II Empirical studies -- 7 Hyderabad's education market -- 8 Schools, market and citizenship in Delhi -- 9 Curriculum as a dimension of quality: its production and management in schools in Hyderabad -- 10 Management of home-school relationship: role of school principals in low-fee private schools -- 11 School quality: parent perspectives and schooling choices -- 12 Teaching because it matters: beliefs and practices of government school teachers -- Index