Gender in the New Education Policy 2016 in the Making: Process and Outcome

Autor/in	Chanana, Karuna
Titel	Gender in the New Education Policy 2016 in the Making: Process and Outcome
Quelle	In: Higher Education for the Future, 4 (2017) 2, S.117-128 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2347-6311
DOI	10.1177/2347631117706260
Schlagwörter	Educational Policy; Educational Change; Gender Issues; Research Reports; Policy Formation; Research Committees; Program Proposals; Context Effect; Incidence; Higher Education; Foreign Countries; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Geschlechterfrage; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Politische Betätigung; Vorkommen; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Indien
Abstract	There is no doubt that until now significant progress has been made to include gender in the Indian education policy. Further, it is also recognized that investment in the education of both boys and girls with focus on equity is consistently the most powerful and important indicator of national development, as well as being a vehicle for the advancement of the present and future generations of children. Therefore, leaving out issues of gender and girls' education puts a question mark on the future vision of society. Right now, the new education policy is in the making, after a gap of 24 years. There are two documents in the public domain. The first one was an outcome of a very extensive and expansive process of consultations. This article interrogates the process of policy formulation by looking at texts of these two reports as primary data sources. The central concern in this article is to show the complete or near complete gender blindness or exclusion of concerns regarding education of girls and women in the two documents. As a result, there is no or hardly any space given to them in these documents which presumably will go into the formulation of the new education policy. What is required is a focus on equality and a transformative conception of gender inclusiveness in the new policy, which will ensure meaningful and realistic inclusion of gender concerns. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01