Private Schooling and Tutoring at Scale in South Asia
The chapter reviews trends and reasons for increased private schooling and tutoring in South Asia, and the systemic implications and governance strategies to tackle this proliferation. Focusing... Read More
Out-of- School Children and Regional Disparity in Lao PDR : Focus on the Education Access and Quality
In Lao PDR, the number of Out of School Children(OOSC) remains 50,332 as of 2018. Most of them live in remote areas where the infrastructure... Read More
“Urban Slum Education”: A Case Study of Children’s Experience in Jakarta
Fast-paced expansion of urban poverty entailed the proliferation of slum population, estimated 881 million worldwide (UN-Habitat, 2016). The international community’s action-making on the Sustainable Development... Read More
Seafaring Nomads: Sedentary Schools
Nomads and refugees – among the most marginalized social groups in this globalized era – expose tension between two otherwise-agreeable maxims: that all children have... Read More
Craft Education in India: Potential Educational Counter Spaces Beyond Utilitarian, Neoliberal Models
This research argues that formal craft education in India has the potential to provide a viable educational counter space to global mainstream educational approaches and... Read More
Youth and the National Narrative: Education, Terrorism and the Security State in Pakistan
The role of the security establishment in Pakistan has been strengthened in a post-Musharraf era as social institutions are increasingly drawn into the security agenda.... Read More