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Gunjan Sharma; Sunita Singh – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
This paper traces the location of the principles of India's Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009, in the country's most recent National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and the documents leading up to the policy. It draws on the capability development approach and critical theory that facilitate understanding education as…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Access to Education, Educational Quality, Equal Education
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Thapliyal, Nisha – Education as Change, 2018
Social movements for public education challenge neoliberal claims that there is no alternative to the market--to the inevitability of the privatisation of education. This article analyses the ways in which education activists in India deploy critical histories in their struggles for a public and common school system. It is empirically grounded in…
Descriptors: Activism, Mass Instruction, Civil Rights, Commercialization