Secondary Education in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh: Gender Dimensions of State Policy and Practice

Jyotsna Jha and Ramya Subrahmanian

Chapter 13 in Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context, 2006, pp 278-298 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Linking gender and education to the social policy agenda is not straightforward. Many questions arise, most of which hinge on the kinds of impact education is expected to have on human behaviour, capacities and skills, and on gender identities and relations. In that sense, education within the wider social policy debate is linked to questions of society and citizenship, understandings about modernity and national identity, and the recasting of notions of masculinity and femininity at different historical moments of time. The content of education, the impact of policy choices adopted in the process of meeting universal-education agendas, and the ways in which equity and social-inclusion concerns are addressed through public institutions, are among the several issues that arise in relation to the reframing of social policvy from a gender perspective.

Keywords: Secondary Education; Elementary Education; Secondary Stage; Uttar Pradesh; Woman Teacher (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230625280_13

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