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Buser De, Maya – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2023
In this article we describe evolving educational aspirations and practices of female high school students and their families in the context of rapidly changing education and employment markets in Kolkata. We interviewed 35 families of girls attending two government high schools. The families are from lower middle-class and lower income…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Females, Family Relationship
Chandran, Meera – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2022
Teachers' work in India is impacted by the ongoing restructuring of school education that incorporates simultaneous attempts at reform and regulation. Child-friendly assessment policy instituted by the local bureaucracy leads to intensification of teachers' administrative roles, drawing their attention away from critical pedagogic ones.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Professional Identity, Teacher Role, Accountability
Suresh Babu, Savitha; Mahajan, Anupama – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2021
This paper offers an ethnographic account of how Golden Harvest International School in Bengaluru branded itself as both 'International' and 'Indian', by elaborating discursive practices within the school. Drawing upon scholarship that has sought to delineate the ways in which globally hyper-mobile Indians construct a distinctive cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Schools, Advanced Placement Programs, Global Approach
Subramanian, Vidya – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2020
Over the past decade the Teach for India (TFI) organisation has emerged as a prominent non-governmental organisation (NGO) involved in Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) with ailing urban municipal government bodies across select cities in India. An off-shoot of the Teach for America (TFA) programme, TFI aims to improve quality of education in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nongovernmental Organizations, Partnerships in Education, Private Sector
North, Amy – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2018
This paper explores the learning experiences and literacy practices of a group of female migrant domestic workers from Nepal, reporting on ethnographic data collected between 2008 and 2013. Drawing on the conceptualisation of literacy as a social practice, as well as the notion of translocational positionality, it examines the way in which the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Migrant Workers, Ethnography
Gurney, Eleanor – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2016
Drawing on qualitative interview data from a group of lower income parents in Delhi, India, this paper focuses on the dynamic relationship between parental choice of a particular school and parents' own identity construction. The data indicate that choice of school is for some parents a symbolic expression of identity, influenced by family…
Descriptors: School Choice, Qualitative Research, Low Income, Parent Attitudes
Seth, Sanjay – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2011
From the 1830s the colonial government in India became the agency for the promotion of "Western education", that is, education that sought to disseminate modern, Western, rational knowledge through modern institutions and pedagogic processes. This paper examines a historical episode in which certain key categories of modern Western…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Western Civilization, Educational History, Epistemology