This paper seeks to answer the question, “In the Indian context, what insights can employers offer on the knowing, doing and being dimensions of the formation of an MBA graduate, that management education institutes can use to rebalance their curricula?” It uses the theoretical framework...

The inspection system is a visible link between the large numbers of village-based teachers and the district-level administration. While it may be successful in its ‘school audit’ function, dissatisfaction with the system seems to be related to its inability to play a ‘teacher...

The Fellowship Programme in Social Management, run by a non-governmental organization, aims at training development workers. It can be located within the tradition of non-formal educational experiments which try to develop a ‘pedagogy of the oppressed’. The paper describes the model of...

Debate around the factors responsible for the drop-out phenomenon in elementary education focuses largely on two positions: (a) that parents, under economic compulsions, tend to “withdraw” their children from school, (b) that the schools themselves tend to “eliminate” certain kinds of...

Educational policy-making has been motivated in independent India by a concern for equity and the belief that education is an instrument for reducing social inequalities. However, in spite of impressive achievements in school enrollments and access to higher education, the phenomena of...

This paper is based on the experience of a non-governmental organization in educating 113 school drop-outs as ‘bare-foot’ veterinarians in the tribal areas of Gujarat. The pedagogy focussed on ‘unlearning’ and countering certain internalized stereotypes like ‘backwardness’ in order...

This article extends the ideas underpinning the concept of ‘social entrepreneurs’ to teachers who have created social value in the contexts of socio-economic and educational deprivation. Such teachers develop innovative practices that are tailored to their situations, in order to...

This article examines how teachers who have achieved their educational goals in rural contexts of socio-economic and educational deprivation have redefined their roles using socio-educationally entrepreneurial practices, and consequently, have created an identity of ‘competence’ for...