Monday, October 8, 2007

Dr. Anil Sadgopal on Neo-Liberal Education

Dr. Sadgopal presented an analysis that suggests that the neo-liberal education policies compromise on some of the earlier ideas on primary education laid down in the constitution. Dr. Sadgopal suggests that the notions of decentralization; and doing away with land acquisition controls arise out of forces that seek to undermine the Indian state; and that the market-based outlook that transforms the ministry of education to the ministry of human-resources - reduces the human being to a resource.

Dr. Sadgopal envisages political struggles - by the Dalits, by Muslims and by women as forces that will humanize the oppressors.

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