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Mathew, Leya – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2018
This paper analyzes narratives about the radical socio-economic changes accompanying liberalization in India to consider how English-medium schooling is becoming an aspirational resource for non-elite parents. I suggest that aspiring is a practice of ethics that marginalized mothers mobilize to negotiate memories of deprivation and yearnings for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Influences, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)