Education for All: How Schooling Is Creating Social Changes for Lowered-Caste Girls in Rural India
- Title
- Education for All: How Schooling Is Creating Social Changes for Lowered-Caste Girls in Rural India
- Creator
- Dejaeghere J.; Arur A.A.
- Description
- Arguments for the expansion of formal schooling have long focused on individual outcomes from schooling, including increasing income, reducing poverty, delaying marriage, and improving health, particularly for girls and women. For nearly three decades now, global education agendas have supported girls education in an effort to achieve these outcomes. A large body of research analyzes girls individual empowerment from schooling, but less attention is given to how schooling is creating change in families and communities, particularly for lowered-caste girls in India. This article places longitudinal data from a three-year qualitative interview study of schoolgirls in Rajasthan alongside qualitative life-history interviews of girls who completed secondary school in Uttarakhand to understand how schooling affects social changes for lower castes. The analysis, using an intersectional and relational approach, illustrates how girls schooling shifts kin and caste relations connected to marriage and work but in ways that do not transform the stickiness of caste and gender norms. We argue that educational policies and programs must attend to the ways in which caste is implicated in achieving outcomes of delayed marriage and formal employment for lowered-caste girls in Indian communities if schooling is to create positive social change. 2020 by The Author(s).
- Source
- Gender and Society, Vol-34, No. 6, pp. 951-975.
- Date
- 2020-01-01
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc.
- Subject
- caste; comparative/crossnational; education; gender; girls; inequality
- Coverage
- Dejaeghere J., University of Minnesota, United States; Arur A.A., Department of Psychology, CHRIST (Deemed to be University, India
- Rights
- All Open Access; Green Open Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 8912432
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Dejaeghere J.; Arur A.A., “Education for All: How Schooling Is Creating Social Changes for Lowered-Caste Girls in Rural India,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 25, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/16142.