Schooled for the future?
Subtitle: educational policy and everyday life among urban squatters in Nepal
By: by Karen Valentin.
Series: Education policy in practice: critical cultural studies; Education policy in practice
Publisher: IAP-Information Age Pub. Inc.; Information Age Publishing
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Greenwich, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Education and state -- Nepal -- Kathmandu.; Education -- Social aspects -- Nepal -- Kathmandu.; Poor -- Nepal -- Kathmandu.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a policy perspective on the paradox of schooling; title: Exploring ramaghat : social differentiation in the context of urban squatting; title: Education and nation building in Nepal : an historical perspective; title: Dealing with diversity and hierarchy : schooling and social exclusion; title: Dreams and realities : the struggle for a better life; title: "We want education" : children's rights and the appropriation of egalitarian ideas; title: The "schooled person" : negotiating caste and generation; title: Conclusion : education policy and the paradoxes of school social exclusion.