TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Several countries in South Asia face the challenge of ineffective educational reforms manifest in increasing rates of school failure and poor learning outcomes after embarking along education for all. Critical voices from the South have questioned the relevance and appropriateness of ideas that have shaped these reforms. Narratives from the region tell us that importation of educational concepts and policy orientations have led to the dismantling of existing structures and processes of education, creating new forms of inequities and disadvantage. The sheer scale and diversity of populations within the region poses formidable challenges and opportunities for contextual innovation. The construction of national imaginaries in the diverse societies of South Asia has the potential to provide new discourses to educational reform; going beyond the abstract goals set by disconnected international experts and the institutional processes they represent. This chapter deliberates on the need to establish a persuasive critical perspective that can influence and shape the trajectories of policy and practice, research and theorization, within the field of comparative education in South Asia, and the global south.
VL  - 36
SN  - 978-1-78743-392-2, 978-1-78743-391-5/1479-3679
DO  - 10.1108/S1479-367920190000036011
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-367920190000036011
AU  - Batra Poonam
ED  - Charl Coetzee Wolhuter
ED  - Alexander W. Wiseman
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Comparative Education in South Asia: Contribution, Contestation, and Possibilities
T2  - Comparative and International Education: Survey of an Infinite Field
T3  - International Perspectives on Education and Society
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 183
EP  - 211
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -