Schooling and Aspirations in the Urban Margins

This book presents a detailed ethnographic study conducted in an urban slum in India. It explores how a State school, as a social and pedagogic institution, shapes the aspirations and worldviews of children in the urban margins.

The volume engages with the children''s experience of marginality and exclusion as they negotiate the intersecting axes of caste, class, gender, and citizenship. It furthe...