Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE190101225

Funded Activity Summary

Tackling social inequality in Indian schools. This project aims to investigate whether affirmative action education policies can assist in breaking down social inequality. It will do so by exploring the lived outcomes of India’s Right to Education Act, which requires private schools to provide free education for underprivileged children. Based on long-term fieldwork, this project is expected to identify factors that contribute to inclusivity in private schools, and to generate fine-grained data on class contestation. Anticipated outcomes include a deeper understanding of how Indian private schools can be desegregated, new perspectives on the analysis of class globally, and insights into the relationship between the state, the private sector and education as a public good. The project will inform Australian debates about social mobility and education as a public good.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 18-03-2019

End Date: 31-12-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $370,278.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Social and Cultural Anthropology | Anthropology | Anthropology of Development

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Education and Training Systems Policies and Development | Social Class and Inequalities |

Other Keywords

Anthropology | Anthropology of Development | Education and Training Systems Policies and Development | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Social Class and Inequalities | Social and Cultural Anthropology

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