Modernity, Education and Its Alternatives: Schooling among the Urban Poor in Kathmandu

Autor/in	Valentin, Karen
Titel	Modernity, Education and Its Alternatives: Schooling among the Urban Poor in Kathmandu
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 9 (2011) 1, S.99-113 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
Schlagwörter	Educational Planning; Economically Disadvantaged; Social Change; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Social Isolation; Urban Youth; Theory Practice Relationship; Educational Anthropology; Educational Policy; Ethnography; Ideology; Outcomes of Education; Educational Objectives; Nepal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsplanung; Sozialer Wandel; Bildungsreform; Ausland; Soziale Isolation; Urban area; Urban areas; Youth; Stadtregion; Stadt; Jugend; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Pädagogische Anthropologie; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ethnografie; Ideologie; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel
Abstract	Ideas of linear progress and predictability are essential to globally circulated ideas of educational planning, but do not necessarily correspond with the realities and priorities of ordinary people whose life trajectories often shape very differently. Thus, shedding light on the contradictory ideas about education and divergent expectations as to the meaning and "outcome" of schooling held by different social actors, the aim of this article is to explore why young people do not necessarily follow educational programmes along a linear track as often envisioned by planners. Based on ethnographic material collected in a squatter settlement in Kathmandu since the mid-1990s, the article focuses on the discrepancies between the ideals of progress and social change characterising educational planning, continued practices of social exclusion and culturally produced meanings ascribed to education, as it is played out in the context of the "urban poor" in Nepal. (Contains 6 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10