Overview
- Shares essential insights into the status quo of secondary education in India based on empirical evidence and political discourses
- Outlines suggestions for improving the quality of education and trained teachers
- Examines private schools across the country and how they worsen inequalities in education and in society at large
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Secondary Education in India: Growth and Inequalities
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Private Education, Equity, Quality and Justice in Secondary Education
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Determinants of Participation in Secondary Education
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Skill Development, Vocational Education and Employment
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About this book
This book offers a cutting-edge contribution on the importance of secondary education and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of its growth in India. Secondary education, long neglected, faces countless challenges and will require tremendous financial resources, millions of additional trained teachers, and vast infrastructure in terms of buildings, laboratories, libraries, ICT facilities, etc. The book examines these critical issues, with particular reference to the situation in India. It analyses the status quo of secondary education and discusses the strategies and approaches needed in order to universalize it. Including 20 chapters authored by eminent scholars in the field and from across the country, this book gathers the outcomes of a seminar organized by the Council for Social Development on Universalization of Secondary Education. The target audience includes policymakers, practitioners, administrators, education planners, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators with an interest in the future of secondary education.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Jandhyala B. G. Tilak is a former Vice-Chancellor and Professor at the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, and currently an ICSSR National Fellow and Distinguished Professor at the Council for Social Development. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics of Education from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Prof Tilak is an eminent economist of education. He has served on the research and teaching faculty of the University of Delhi, Indian Institute of Education, University of Virginia and Hiroshima University (Japan), and as a Visiting Professor of Economics at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning. He was also on the research staff of the World Bank. Prof Tilak has authored/edited a dozen books and over 300 research papers in the areas of economics of education and development studies. He received the UGC’s Swami Pranavananda Saraswati National Award for his outstanding scholarly research in education (1999), Dr. Malcolm Adiseshiah Award fordistinguished research contributions to development studies (2003), the Inspirational Teacher of the Year Global Education Award (2012), and the Devang Mehta National Education Award for outstanding contributions to education (2015). Prof Tilak had the privilege of delivering a keynote address to a meeting of the Noble laureates in Barcelona in 2005. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Universal Secondary Education in India
Book Subtitle: Issues, Challenges and Prospects
Editors: Jandhyala B. G. Tilak
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5366-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Council for Social Development 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5365-3Published: 25 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5368-4Published: 26 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5366-0Published: 24 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 437
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 45 illustrations in colour