Education is simultaneously produced by, and reproduces, inequities in the context of South Asia. Educational policy and practice are not only imbricated with broader structural inequalities, such as those of caste and gender, but also shape newer registers of marginality and discrimination through the unequal adoption of technology or normative pedagogies in contemporary times.
‘Education and Inequity: Perspectives from South Asia’ is a one-day research symposium that focuses on identifying the sites, forms and operations of inequity in education and contributing to the growing body of scholarship on rethinking and redesigning education systems to be more inclusive and equitable. The symposium will be hosted by Education South Asia and Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Oxford, and aims to bring together graduate students, researchers and practitioners to explore these entanglements from a multidisciplinary perspective.
| 9:00am-9:30am | Registrations |
| 9:30am-9:40am | Welcome Note: Dr Uma Pradhan Lecturer, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society |
| 9.40am-10.00am | Keynote Address: Dr Akshay Mangla, Associate Professor, University of Oxford |
| 10.00am-11.30am | Panel 1: Dominant Discourses |
| 11.30am-11.45am | Tea and Coffee break |
| 11.45am-1.15pm | Panel 2: Pedagogic Peripheries |
| 1.15pm-2.15pm | Lunch Break |
| 2.15pm-3.45pm | Panel 3: Policy and Practice |
| 3.45pm-4.00pm | Tea and Coffee break |
| 4.00pm-5.30pm | Panel 4: Intersectional Inequalities |
| 5.30pm onwards | Evening Reception |