Modern Schooling and Trajectories of Exclusion: Childhoods in India

This book investigates the gap between schooling and society, focusing on how non-normative childhoods are constructed as the 'provincial other.' It explores how modern schooling excludes and provincializes children, despite set policies for inclusion, and how they respond to this. The chapters draw upon various disciplines and research methodologies to unpack the structures of modern schooling and provide a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students in education, sociology, research methods, childhood studies, and social sciences.

Format: Hardback
Length: 130 pages
Publication date: 10 October 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book aims to delve into the disjuncture between schooling and society, exploring the specific spatialities and temporalities through which non-normative childhoods are constructed as the 'provincial other.' A substantial body of critical scholarship has engaged with the ways in which modern schooling perpetuates certain situated, normative ideals of child development and struggles to accommodate childhoods that deviate from these normative frameworks. The COVID-19 pandemic, in fact, served as a stark reminder of how schooling, in its current form, is limited in its ability to address childhoods that disrupt spatio-temporal assumptions of the 'normal' and 'stable.'

Together, the authors of this edited volume examine how modern schooling, despite established policies for inclusion, excludes certain children, and how these provincialized children respond to this. Spanning a range of disciplines from history and anthropology to sociology and childhood studies, statistics, and demography, and employing various research methodologies, from archival to ethnographic, the chapters draw upon these diverse disciplines to unpack the structures of modern schooling.

Modern Schooling and Trajectories of Exclusion will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of education, sociology, research methods, childhood studies, and social sciences. The chapters included in this book were originally published as a special issue of Children's Geographies.

Weight: 421g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032556437