We Shall Fight, We Shall Win: An Activist History of Mass Education in India

Autor/in	Thapliyal, Nisha
Titel	We Shall Fight, We Shall Win: An Activist History of Mass Education in India
Quelle	In: Education as Change, 22 (2018) 2, Artikel 3582 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Thapliyal, Nisha)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1947-9417
Schlagwörter	Activism; Mass Instruction; Civil Rights; Commercialization; Access to Education; Equal Education; Social Justice; Foreign Countries; Privatization; Documentaries; Films; Social Change; Public Education; Educational History; Educational Legislation; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Ausland; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Documentary film; Documentary films; Dokumentarfilm; Film; Sozialer Wandel; Öffentliche Erziehung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Indien
Abstract	Social movements for public education challenge neoliberal claims that there is no alternative to the market--to the inevitability of the privatisation of education. This article analyses the ways in which education activists in India deploy critical histories in their struggles for a public and common school system. It is empirically grounded in a critical analysis of a 2016 activist documentary film called "We Shall Fight, We Shall Win." The film was produced by a grassroots activist coalition called the All India Forum for the Right to Education (AIFRTE) as part of their ongoing struggles against the commercialisation and communalisation of education. The film provides a rare opportunity to explore different kinds of historical knowledge produced in collective struggles for equity and social justice in India. In particular, this analysis examines the ways in which activists link the past and the present to challenge and decentre privatised narratives of education and development. In doing so, this research offers situated insights into the critical histories that inspire, sustain and co-construct one site of ongoing collective struggle for public education in India. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01