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Livelihoods and Learning - Education For All and the marginalisation of mobile pastoralists (Paperback)
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Livelihoods and Learning - Education For All and the marginalisation of mobile pastoralists (Paperback)
Series: Education, Poverty and International Development
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Current paradigms of 'development' generally serve mobile
pastoralist groups poorly: their visibility in policy processes is
minimal, and their mobility is constructed by the powerful as a
'problem', rather than as a rational livelihood strategy.
Increasingly damaged eco-systems, shrinking natural resources,
globalisation and urbanisation all put pressure on pastoralist
livelihoods. Such processes often worsen, rather than alleviate,
poverty and socio-economic marginalisation among pastoralists, but
they also precipitate engagement with forms of education that may
improve their future livelihood security and social status, and
enhance occupational diversification. Opening with a discussion of
how the relationships between education, poverty and development
have been conceived in dominant development discourses, this book
reviews the disappointing international experience of education
provision to mobile pastoralist groups. It highlights a lack of
sufficient flexibility and relevance to changing livelihoods and,
more fundamentally, education's conceptual location within a
sedentarist paradigm of development that is antagonistic to
mobility as a legitimate livelihood strategy. These global themes
are examined in India, where policy and practices of education
inclusion for mobile, marginalised groups are critiqued.
Empirically-based chapters drawing on ethnographic research,
provide detailed insights into how the Rabaris of Kachchh - a
pastoralist community in Gujarat, Western India - engage with
education as a social and economic development strategy for both
adults and children, and show how ethnographic and participatory
research approaches can be used for policy advocacy for
marginalised groups. Livelihoods and Learning highlights the
complex, contested and often inconsistent role of education in
development and the social construction of poverty, and calls for a
critical reappraisal of the notion of 'education'. The book will be
key reading for postgraduates and academics in education,
development studies, international and comparative education and
research methodology, as well as policy-makers, ministries and
related agencies with responsibility for education.
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