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Zajda, Joseph, Ed.; Majhanovich, Suzanne, Ed. – Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research, 2021
This book critiques dominant discourses and debates pertaining to cultural identity, set against the current backdrop of growing social stratification and unequal access to quality education. It addresses current discourses concerning globalisation, ideologies and the state, as well as approaches to constructing national, ethnic and religious…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Global Approach, Nationalism, Ideology
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Bhattacharya, Somdatta; Deb, Swarupa; Nair, Hari; Shukla, Tanu; Yadav, Anupam – Higher Education for the Future, 2017
This article brings together critical perspectives on a broad range of issues that emerge from a reading of the National Policy on Education 2016. The issues vary from accountability to transdisciplinarity and from the marginalization of transgender people to value education. Such a complex task of critiquing this policy document cannot be…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Criticism, Accountability, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Debnath, Roma Mitra; Shankar, Ravi – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the relevant enablers and barriers related to technical education. It seeks to critically analyze the relationship amongst them so that policy makers can focus on relevant parameters to improve the service quality of technical education. Design/methodology/approach: The present study employs the…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Technical Education, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
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Tooley, James; Dixon, Pauline; Gomathi, S. V. – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
This article presents a rejoinder to P. Sarangapani and C. Winch who accuse the authors of creating an "ideological fairytale" about the merits of private education for low income families, specifically in poor areas of Hyderabad. The authors present their remarks on Sarangapani and Winch's reply to their article.
Descriptors: Private Education, Reader Response, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Opportunities
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Sarangapani, Padma M.; Winch, Christopher – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
Tooley, Dixon and Gomathi maintain that private unrecognised unaided schools in Hyderabad, India, catering for children of the poor, provide a better level of education than do their government counterparts. We examine this contention and argue first that Tooley et al.'s conceptualisation of education and its benefits is flawed and second that the…
Descriptors: Private Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Educational Assessment