India's New Education Policy - an Elephant with Two Types of Teeth

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10.2991/icadce-17.2017.126How to use a DOI?

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India's education policy; new education policy; values; traditions; equity; democracy; subversion of democracy; commercialization; WTO; GATS; privatization

Abstract

India's education policy under the right wing government, presently in power in India, is replete with contradictions between hypocritical claims and ground realities. The claims are all politically correct, but the practice is contradictory to the declared claims so made. The new education policy is conservative in most respects. The emphasis is on traditions, past and conservative value system. Despite the phrases like equity, democracy and the rant against commercialization, in practice we witness subversion of all that is politically correct.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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