symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  A short statement of the issues involved

• THE BEST OF TIMES,  THE WORST OF TIMES
  Vimala Ramachandran, Educational Resource Unit, Delhi

• IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE?
  Amarjeet Sinha, civil servant (IAS), Delhi

• TRANSFORMATION OR TINKERING?
  Amukta Mahapatra, Consultant, UNICEF, Bhubaneshwar

• IN SEARCH OF QUALITY
  Sharada Jain, Director, Sandhan, Jaipur

• IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE EDUCATION BUREAUCRACY
  A.R. Vasavi, Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore

• BEYOND RESOURCES
  Dhir Jhingran, Director, Department of Women and Child Development, GOI, Delhi

• INTEGRATING GENDER CONCERNS
  Geetha B. Nambissan, Associate Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• UNPACKING THE 'QUALITY' OF SCHOOLS
  Anita Rampal, Maulana Azad Centre for Elementary and Social Education (MACESE), Department of Education, Delhi University

• REACHING FOR QUALITY IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
  Padmanabha Rao, Radhika Herzberger and Rajan Chandy, Rashi Valley Education Centre, Andhra Pradesh

• THE LEARNING GUARANTEE PROGRAMME
  S. Giridhar, Head, Advocacy and Research, Azim Premji Foundation, Bangalore

• LEARNING TO READ
  Rukmini Banerji, Madhav Chavan and Usha Rane, Pratham Resource Center, Delhi and Pune

• RETHINKING SCHOOLING
  Gurveen Kaur, Centre for Learning, Secunderabad

• FIELD NOTES
  Jharkhand by Kameshwari Jandhyala, Consultant, Mahila Samakhya, Department of Education, MHRD, GOI, Delhi; Gauriganj Diary by Rukmini Banerji, Pratham, Delhi

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Jyotsna Jha, Harsh Sethi, Ratna M. Sudarshan, Vimala Ramachandran and Aarti Saihjee

• FURTHER READING
  Compiled by G. Gayatri and Parna Das, PhD students, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

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