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Exploring Education and Democratization in South Asia

Research, Policy, and Practice

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Editors:
  1. Tania Saeed

    1. Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan

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  2. Radhika Iyengar

    1. Center for Sustainable Development, Climate School Columbia University, New York, USA

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  3. Matthew A. Witenstein

    1. Department of Educational Administration, University of Dayton , Dayton, USA

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  4. Erik Jon Byker

    1. Cato College of Education, Honors College, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA

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  • First book to provide a comprehensive overview of policy debates and issues within education/democracy in South Asia
  • Features perspectives from academics, policymakers, teachers, and students
  • Centers equity and inclusivity within education and in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals

Part of the book series: South Asian Education Policy, Research, and Practice (SAEPRP)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Tania Saeed, Radhika Iyengar
    Pages 1-11

  3. Illuminating the Shadow Education Mechanism of Neoliberal Governmentality in Bangladesh

    • Nisma Elias
    Pages 13-31

  4. Competition Exams and Topper Praise in India: A Media Case Study in Educational (In)equality

    • Eddie Boucher
    Pages 33-53

  5. Populist Visions and the Issue of Exclusion: An Exploration of Educational Policy Reforms in India and Pakistan

    • Laraib Niaz, Kusha Anand
    Pages 55-77

  6. Missing Girls on the Margins? Equity, Assessment, and Evaluation in India’s New Education Policy

    • Ananya Tiwari, Melissa Rae Goodnight
    Pages 79-99

  7. Unregulated Private Tutoring in India: Educational Inequalities Engendered by the “Light But Tight” National Education Policy 2020

    • Shalini Bhorkar
    Pages 101-121

  8. Federalism in Nepal: Early Implications for School Governance

    • Julie Schaffner, Uttam Sharma, Paul Glewwe
    Pages 123-149

  9. Higher Education Reforms: Unfulfilled Promise of Decentralization in India

    • Soumya Mishra
    Pages 151-172

  10. Neoliberal Politics of Education Reforms in India: A Case of De Facto Privatization in University of Delhi Through NEP 2020

    • Vaishali, Narender Thakur
    Pages 173-199

  11. Sites of Struggle as Sites of Learning: Student Activism as Counter-Hegemonic Resistance to the Neoliberal University in Pakistan

    • Mariam Parvez Sheikh
    Pages 201-219

  12. Mobilizing for Justice: Social Media as a Transformational Tool for Student Activism in Pakistan

    • Salman Sikandar, Aymen Fatima
    Pages 221-237

  13. Democracy and a Quality Education in South Asia: A Conclusion

    • Erik Jon Byker, Matthew A. Witenstein
    Pages 239-245

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 247-250
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About this book

This volume brings together scholars, practitioners, activists, and students to reflect on socio-political transitions taking place in countries across South Asia and their implications for democracy and education. It provides an important intervention for comparative education in South Asia by looking at the kind of ideological tensions that exist within the education systems, and how these competing agendas are visible at different levels. At a time when students have been protesting for their rights across educational institutions in South Asia, where the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequalities with learning losses, and job losses, this collection creates a space to reflect on the limitations and possibilities of education in democracies across South Asia.

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“Taking up issues such as education policy reform, curricular reforms, decentralization, student politics (higher education), the role of social media, the impact of private tutoring, and using conceptual frameworks from a number of disciplines, the authors grapple with the complexities involved with delivering quality education to all children while dealing with issues of individual and collective human agency and interests. It makes for compelling reading. Chapters grapple with the attempt to privatize education and use markets and market-based incentives wherever possible while keeping a strong conservative nationalistic ideology in the political and curricular spheres and the consequences, for education delivery as well as the education that is being given, that come from this. This is definitely a significant issue across contemporary South Asia and its impacts will be deep and will last for quite some time. The book makes original and pioneering contributions in the study of someof the impacts that are already being seen. This is an excellent addition to Education literature in South Asia. The issues authors raise will have relevance for many other countries too other than their importance for understanding education issues in South Asia. Students and scholars of politics and/or education could gain a lot by engaging with the book.” —Faisal Bari, Former Dean and Associate Professor, Syed Ahsan Ali and Syed Maratib Ali School of Education, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan

"This volume makes a distinct contribution to our understanding of education in South Asia by focusing on new and emerging phenomenon in education ranging from shadow education to decentralisation and federalism, regulation, markets and privatization, student activism, and populism. It expands our understanding of democratisation by examining institutions, actors and policy texts in various chapters and uses underexplored methods tooffer newer insights."—Manish Jain, Associate Professor, School of Education Studies, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan

    Tania Saeed

  • Center for Sustainable Development, Climate School Columbia University, New York, USA

    Radhika Iyengar

  • Department of Educational Administration, University of Dayton , Dayton, USA

    Matthew A. Witenstein

  • Cato College of Education, Honors College, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA

    Erik Jon Byker

About the editors

Tania Saeed is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan.

Radhika Iyengar is Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA.

Matthew A. Witenstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Administration at University of Dayton, USA.

Erik Jon Byker is a Full Professor in the Cato College of Education and Honors College at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Exploring Education and Democratization in South Asia

  • Book Subtitle: Research, Policy, and Practice

  • Editors: Tania Saeed, Radhika Iyengar, Matthew A. Witenstein, Erik Jon Byker

  • Series Title: South Asian Education Policy, Research, and Practice

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47798-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47797-3Published: 20 February 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47800-0Due: 22 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-47798-0Published: 19 February 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2946-4439

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-4447

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 250

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Development Studies, Sustainable Development

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