Schooled for the Future? Educational Policy and Everyday Life Among Urban Squatters in Nepal

"e;Schooled for the future?"e; offers an ethnographically rich account about squatter families in Kathmandu and their struggles to improve their living conditions and create a better future through education. Examining how people - children and adults - experience and respond to policy initiatives aimed at improving their life the book discusses the paradoxes inherent in modern schooling. Firstly,...