School Education in Nepal: History and Politics of Governance and Reforms

Chautari Book Series - 105

Contents

• Reprinting Rights Acknowledgments - vii
• Preface - ix
• Introduction
  
  The Politics of Educating the Public: A Brief Historical Sketch - 1
  Lokranjan Parajuli and Pratyoush Onta
  
  The Early Years (Pre 1960)

1. From Controlling Access to Crafting Minds: An Experiment in Education in Late Rana Nepal - 35
   Lokranjan Parajuli
2. Origins of the Faith: The Untold Story of Hugh Wood, American Development Assistance in the 1950s, and Nepal’s Modern Education System - 71
   Jeremy Rappleye
   
   Panchayat Period (1960–1990)
    
3. Schools as an Arena of Struggle: Reexamining the Panchayat Era Politics of Education  - 115
   Lokranjan Parajuli  
4. Ambivalence Denied: The Making of Rastriya Itihas in Panchayat Era Textbooks - 157
   Pratyoush Onta
   
   Democratic Period (1990–2015)
    
5. Community Schooling in Nepal: A Genealogy of Education Reform since 1990 - 209
   Stephen Carney and Min Bahadur Bista 
6. The World Bank, Community Schooling, and School-based Management: A Political Economy of Educational Decentralization in Nepal - 241
   Tejendra Pherali
7. Public Desire for Private Schooling in Nepal - 263
   Pramod Bhatta
8. Teachers’ Unions in School Education Governance: Experiences from Post-2000 Nepal - 291
   Devendra Uprety
   
   Federal Transition Years (Post 2015)
    
9. Making Education Policy Choices in a Climate of Uncertainties: A Case Study from Nepal - 325
   Labisha Uprety
10. Free Education? Blurred Public-Private Boundaries in State-run Schooling in Nepal - 363
    Uma Pradhan and Karen Valentin 

• Notes on Contributors - 389
• Index - 393