symposium participants

• THE PROBLEM
  Posed by Sanjay Kumar, Secretary, Deshkal Society and P.D. Singh, Research Consultant, Deshkal Society, Delhi

• IDEOLOGY, CULTURE AND STRUCTURE
  T.K. Oommen, Emeritus Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• SOCIAL DISPARITY IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
  Madhumita Bandyopadhyay, Associate Professor, National University of Educational Planning and Administration, Delhi

• EQUITY AND EQUALITY IN SCHOOLING
  Gouri Srivastava, Head, Department of Women's Studies, National Council of Educational Research and Training, Delhi

• PLURALISM VERSUS CONTEST OF IDENTITIES
  Vikas Gupta, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi

• DECODING ILLITERACY
  Savyasaachi, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi

• CREATING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
  Sonal Singh, graduate student, St. Stephen's College, Delhi

• SANSKARA
  P.D. Singh, Research Consultant, Deshkal Society and Sanjay Kumar, scholar activist; Secretary, Deshkal Society

• FREEDOM THROUGH EDUCATION?
  Shushmita Chatterji Dutt, consultant, gender and education, Raipur

•  CONFRONTING STEREOTYPES
  Mini Shrinivasan, consultant in elementary education, Pune

• PRESCRIBED MARGINALIZATION
  Kishore Darak, teacher, researcher and educator, Pune 

• INCLUSION PERSONIFIED
  Suman Sachdeva, Technical Director, Girls' Education Programme, CARE India, Delhi

• NEED FOR EXCELLENCE, NOT LITERACY
  Nita Kumar, Brown Family Professor of South Asian History, Claremont McKenna College, California

• THE POLITICS OF JUSTICE
  Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, California State University Monterey Bay, and President, National Association for Multicultural Education interviewed by Arvind Mishra

• THE VALUE OF DIVERSITY
  Sister Cyril Mooney, Principal, Loreto Day School, Sealdah, Kolkata, in conversation with Kumar Rana and Anwesha Rana

• BOOKS 
  Reviewed by Salil Misra and Vimala Ramachandran

• FURTHER READING
  A select and relevant bibliography compiled by Deshkal Society, Delhi

• ESSAY
  Rajen Harshe, former Vice Chancellor, University of Allahabad

• IN MEMORIAM
  Anil Bordia 1934-2012 and Verghese Kurien 1921-2012

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