Isbn: 9789391370039 - educating youth: regulation through psychosocial skilling in india (4 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Contents: 1. Introduction: Framing Youth in Contemporary Times. 2. The Skilling Economy and Youth at Risk. 3. Cultures of Schooling in India. 4. Schooling, Skilling and a Range of Actors Redefining 'Educated Youth'. 5. Life Skills Education as Pedagogies of 'Discipline'. 6. Ends of Discipline: Curricular Transactions and Social Reproduction of Identities. 7. Cultural Disconnects and the Possibilities for Subject Formation. Conclusion. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Educating Youth: Regulation through Psychosocial Skilling in India studies the rise in skill-based developmental interventions for young people that aim to harness youth potential. Tracing these changes to the neoliberalization of education and training globally, this book discusses how a range of training programs, from social and personality development skills to employability and vocational skills, seek to cultivate an ethic of self-responsibility through skilling, to overcome structural disadvantage among the marginalized youth. Examining one such form of training in depth, Life Skills Education or LSE, that is advocated by international organizations, such as WHO and UNICEF, and popularized in India by various actors---from the state departments of education to local non-governmental organisations and middle-class citizensthis book shows how these programmes get adapted and modified within the Indian context. It demonstrates how authoritarian adultchild relations, caste inequalities and rote culture inflect the messages for self-development that the programmes transmit. Discussing the impact of these psychosocial skilling programmes observed in the Indian context, the book reflects on the cultural disconnects and internal limitations of liberal, progressive and experiential pedagogies in achieving intended outcomes. …

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