Dyer, C orcid.org/0000-0002-9227-7554 and Rajan, V (2023) Left behind? Internally migrating children and the ontological crisis of formal education systems in South Asia. Compare: a journal of comparative and international education, 53 (2). pp. 287-304. ISSN 0305-7925
Abstract
In-country migration is widespread in South Asia, and the region hosts the world’s largest number of out-of-school children. Yet the relationship between internal migration and inclusion in formal education has received only limited academic and policy attention. The Agenda 2030 pledge to leave no-one behind prompts us to argue that when it comes to migrating children, formal education systems in South Asia are in ontological crisis. Cases of mobile pastoralists and seasonal labour migrants illustrate that being ‘left behind’ is produced by intersecting norms of modernity, which formal education systems reproduce, via logics of rights, human capital and ‘terms of inclusion’. Formal education systems are antithetical to mobility-dependent livelihoods, discount situated learning, and perpetuate unequal social relations. ‘Alternative’ education has done little to contest these norms and their productions. Terming this an ‘ontological crisis’ signals both the disjuncture between realities and Agenda 2030’s moral exigencies, and the opportunity to act.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 British Association for International and Comparative Education. This is an author produced version of an article published in Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Education inclusion; Leave No-One Behind; mobile pastoralist; ontological crisis; seasonal migration |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2021 13:06 |
Last Modified: | 29 Mar 2023 01:28 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/03057925.2021.1907175 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:171733 |