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Zhao, Yiran Vicky; Bhattacharjea, Suman; Alcott, Benjamin – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
There is near consensus that early childhood education and care (ECEC) is essential to children's early development. A common corollary is that early learning will be pivotal to helping redress inequities in educational outcomes. We examine whether this is true among rural communities in the Indian states of Assam, Rajasthan, and Telangana.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged
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Tooley, James; Dixon, Pauline; Gomathi, S. V. – Oxford Review of Education, 2007
Development literature suggests that private schools serving the poor are not part of the solution to meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of universal primary education. The study conducted a census and survey of schools in notified slums of Hyderabad, India, to contribute to the sparse literature on the nature and extent of private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Elementary Education, Private Schools
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Sangwan, Satpal – Oxford Review of Education, 1990
Traces the imprints of colonial constraints on the evolution of science education in India against the backdrop of the British colonial legacy. Divides the British Educational Policy into three phases: 1792-1813, 1814-35, and 1836-57. Assesses British education policy with regard to the teaching of science following the descriptive analysis. (DB)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Educational History, Educational Policy, Educational Practices