Rethinking Education in the Context of Post-Pandemic South Asia

Uma Pradhan is Lecturer in Education Studies, University College London, UK. Karen Valentin is Associate Professor of Education Anthropology, Department of Educational Anthropology, School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark. Mohini Gupta is a doctorate candidate of Language and Education Anthropology, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

Part 1: RETHINKING LEARNING 1. Calculations and Discourses of Deficit in Indian Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: ‘Learning Loss’ 2. Reflections on education in the wake of Covid-19 in Nepal: Learning Loss or Schooling Loss? 3. Taḥnani Dāphā Khalaḥ’s apprenticeship program: Revitalising indigenous knowledge during a global pandemic 4. Negotiating Space and Equity in the On/Offline Classroom: The Hostel, the Home and the Faceless Screen 5. ‘Re-thinking’ Teacher preparedness in the (post) pandemic Sri Lanka Part 2: RETHINKING EDUCATION INEQUALITIES 6. Rethinking the neighbourhood school in (post-)pandemic India: Synchronicity and segregation 7. A Pernicious Combination of Pandemic and Kashmir Conflict for students in the Valley: A 'Double Lockdown' 8. The Crisis of Education Among Marginalised Learners in India during the Pandemic: Reneged on the Promise of Access 9. Dismal Lives of Women Teachers Working in Low-Cost Private Schools in India: Politics of Precarity 10. The wellbeing of private school teachers during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal Part 3: RETHINKING TECHNOLOGIES OF EDUCATION 11. A phenomenological inquiry into learners’ experience of consonance and dissonance during the pandemic in India: Learning in the time of crisis 12. Opportunities and Challenges of Tele Schooling: Lessons from Pakistan 13. The future of online teaching in the Faculties of Management in Sri Lanka: A means to an end or an end to a means? 14. School Practicum Experience in Initial Teacher Education during times of Disruptions: The Case of Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka