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Direct linkBuser 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
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
