Caste, Costs and Educational Access in Rural Punjab

Autor/in	Tamim, Tayyaba
Titel	Caste, Costs and Educational Access in Rural Punjab
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Educational Development, 5 (2018) 1, S.25-41 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2310-0869
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Class; Costs; Access to Education; Rural Areas; Equal Education; Social Capital; Cultural Capital; Low Income Groups; Poverty; Case Studies; Parent Attitudes; Structured Interviews; Focus Groups; Economic Factors; Data Analysis; Pakistan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Cost; Kosten; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Sozialkapital; Armut; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Elternverhalten; Ökonomischer Faktor; Auswertung
Abstract	This paper is based on some key findings of an original research carried out to explore the issue of inequitable access to education within caste-based social structures in rural Punjab, Pakistan. Data from 36 interviews with low and high caste parents, school heads and four key informant focus groups in two villages in southern and central Punjab revealed that schooling costs remained difficult to manage for the poorest low-castes despite provision of government sponsored free schools. Bourdieu's social critical framework used with specific reference to his notion of capitals reveals processes of social reproduction. The economic capital transubstantiates into social and cultural capital, refracting into schooling costs that are not just economic but also temporal, psychological and social for the lowest caste groups. This limits the impact of economic subsidies offered by the government for expanding educational access. The paper contributes to the current literature by arguing that policies aimed at equitable educational access must conceptualize educational costs as multidimensional, just as poverty itself is not just economic but multifaceted. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Institute of Business Management, Department of Education. Korangi Creek, Karachi-75190, Sindh, Pakistan. Tel: +92-21-111-002-004; Fax: +92-21-3509-0968; e-mail: education.journal@obm.edu.pk; Web site: http://journals.iobmresearch.com/index.php/JEED/index
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01