India will soon be the world's most populated country and its political development will
shape the world of the 21st century. Yet Hindu nationalism–at the helm of contemporary …

This paper examines the shifting relations between the family and the state in Indian
education policy. It charts how family resources, responsibility, and participation have been …

This volume examines how the public and private domains in school education in India are
informed and mediated by current market realities. It moves beyond the simplistic dichotomy …

ABSTRACT In recent years, Innovative Schools in Dali have received increasing coverage
in Chinese social media and have also attracted middle-class parents from cities, as viable …

EDUCATIONAL EXPLANATIONS Educational Explanations is a comprehensive study of the
main philosophical questions that confront empirical educational researchers. The book …

In this chapter, I draw on interviews with parents living in three lower income communities in
Delhi to explore parental conceptions of school quality and to examine the role of both …

This article examines why poor urban households utilize low-fee private schools despite the
government's pro-poor free primary education program in Kenya. Cross-sectional data …

This article examines Muslim parents' private school choice, their understanding of public-
private schooling and how they navigate the choice between fee-free public schools and fee …

The following two excerpts from interviews with Chandni, a young woman enrolled in a co-
educational government college in Mahendargarh district (MDC) in Haryana, and her …

School choice is a domain of incessant and contentious debate in today's era of neo-
liberalism wherein the mushrooming of private schools in the educational marketplace is …