Access versus integration: the benevolent undermining of an Indian desegregation policy.
Efforts to desegregate schools have consistently been undermined by privileged parents finding ways to avoid undesirable schools. In some contexts, a more complex picture is emerging, where 'progressive' privileged parents choose 'diverse' schools but still reproduce segregation. We demonstrate how...
| Publicado en: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 44; no. 2; pp. 294 - 309 |
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