• ISBN13: 9780199474714
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Education & Psychology
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: September 16, 2017
• Pages: 288
• Original Price: INR 995.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 580 grams

With the 86th amendment to the Constitution in 2002, India created a new vision and framework for providing elementary education for all children as a fundamental right. This was fortified with the adoption of the Right to Education of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act in 2009. The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), launched in 2000, offered the operational arrangement for realizing this goal. Tracing the country’s progress in elementary education, India Education Report presents an exhaustive analysis of the subject highlighting achievements and issues that remain unresolved. The volume contains scholarly reviews on carefully chosen themes ranging from pre-school education to adult education and examines governance and financing of education as public provision. Quality, including teachers and their professional development and education of the marginalized form the core concerns that run through all the thematic reviews. State-specific case studies in the report illustrate successful strategies as well as multiplicity of problems of implementation from a holistic perspective. Presenting a comprehensive view of the obstacles to and development of primary education in India, the report evaluates the ongoing policy initiatives and programmes in this field.

R. Govinda is Distinguished Professor, J. P. Naik National Fellow (Indian Council of Social Science Research), Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India.
Mona Sedwal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Training and Capacity Building in Education, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India.