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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Subramanian, Vidya

Titel

Parallel partnerships: Teach for India and new institutional regimes in municipal schools in New Delhi

Ist Teil von

• International studies in sociology of education, 2020-10, Vol.29 (4), p.409-428

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Over the past decade the Teach for India (TFI) organisation has emerged as a prominent non-governmental organisation (NGO) involved in Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) with ailing urban municipal government bodies across select cities in India. An off-shoot of the Teach for America (TFA) programme, TFI aims to improve quality of education in under-resourced municipal government schools through English medium education. Through in-depth interviews with members associated with TFI, some municipal school teachers and information accessed through Right to Information (RTI) applications, this article delineates the modalities of the PPP arrangement within municipal schools in Delhi. It examines how the intervention is institutionalising parallel governance structures, accentuating class-based tensions and exacerbating pedagogical inequities within these long-neglected schools.