This book surveys the elementary education system in India by exploring its institutional structures, processes and dynamics. It examines state education policy and institutions; public expenditure in education in educationally backward states; examples from the villages and schools; teaching and learning practices; systemic issues framing equity; and implications for the future. The book will be useful to scholars and researchers in education, sociology, development studies, and public policy.
This book focuses on the failure of elementary education since Independence. It looks at the system as a whole: infrastructure, quality of teaching, privatisation, nutritional incentives, curriculum. It contains samples from two states: Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh.
