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

Contributor(s): Valentin, Karen (Editor)

ISBN: 9781593114268

Publisher: Information Age Publishing

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Pub Date: January 5, 2006

Dewey: 379.5496

LCCN: 2005029947

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.47" H x 9.21" L x 6.14" W ( 0.70 lbs) 224 pages

Series: Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies

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The book explores squatter families in Kathmandu and their struggles to improve their lives through education. It discusses the paradoxes of modern schooling, which promises social justice but also reproduces inequalities. It highlights the complex relationship between educational policy and everyday life.

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