Uma Pradhan

Simultaneous Identities (eBook, PDF)

Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores ''simultaneity'' to show ''unresolved co-presences'' of contradictory ways through which people maintain multi-layered identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108851299
• Artikelnr.: 70911036

Autorenporträt

Uma Pradhan is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow and Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on power-laden dimensions of education and examines the interconnection between state, society and schooling. Her research has been published in journals such as Education and Ethnography, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education, and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and images
List of acronyms
Introduction. Language, education, and the Nepali nation
1. Language, education, and state-making in Nepal
2. Constructing an educated person
in mother tongue
3. Language, public space, and identity
4. Transforming a language to script
5. Knowledge-making, language, and education
6. Quality, equality, and language ideology
7. Ethnicity, education, and employment
Conclusion. Simultaneous identities.