Education and Society in South Asia

The making of citizens in a 'modern', changing South Asia is the overarching theme of the series. This allows a focus on educational institutions as spaces within which complex processes and activities unfold as well as on all those other social, cultural, and political arenas where pedagogic encounters of different kinds take place. These also include movements and trajectories that are novel and enable children and youth to learn and grow in unconventional ways. An emphasis on social justice enables an intersectional approach to understanding inequality in education. This is examined in different cultural and social contexts that make each experience unique and similar at the same time. Educational institutions are also spaces, where processes, through which participants bring meaning and create social worlds, hugely impact their personal and intellectual development. The volumes in the series cover multiple, overlapping themes in educational discourse: students, youth, teachers, the politics of education and citizenship, and the social, ecological, and moral issues that underlie such discourse. It is an eclectic and comprehensive approach to understanding education in the region as well as the spinoffs from educational processes in the lives of children, youth, and teachers.

Series Editor: Meenakshi Thapan

Meenakshi Thapan is Director of the Rishi Valley Education Centre (Krishnamurti Foundation India) in rural Andhra Pradesh. She was earlier Professor of Sociology and Director, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India.