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Private schooling and mental models about girls' schooling in India

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: This paper presents disadvantaged households' ‘mental models’ about low‐fee private (LFP) schooling for their daughters in a study in Lucknow District, Uttar Pradesh. It argues that assumptions in the dominant discourse on girls' schooling in India obscure the complex negotiations and trade‐offs disadvantaged families make when considering schooling choices for their daughters. Furthermore, they obscure a focus on change resulting from and intertwined with changing socio‐economic structures and institutional contexts for schooling over time. The changing institutional context for education through increased LFP provision is the focus for analysis. Data show that participants were not selective in choosing the LFP sector by gender, and thought of it as representing the best chance for their daughters' livelihoods.

Source: Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education

DOI: 10.1080/03057920601024958

Author: Prachi Srivastava

Institution: University of Sussex

Language: English

Topic: School Choice and Performance

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Reduced inequalities, Gender equality, No poverty

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2018260169

FWCI: 10.27

Cites: 24

Cited by: 62

Related to: 10