TY - BOOK AU - Rashid,Abbas AU - Muzaffar,Irfan ED - South Asian Free Media Association. TI - Educational crisis and reform: perspectives from South Asia SN - 9780199400294 (hbk) U1 - 379.54 PY - 2015/// CY - Karachi : PB - Oxford University Press KW - Educational change KW - South Asia KW - Education N1 - "South Asian Free Media Association"--Jacket; Machine generated contents note: 1. India's Education Crisis: The Effects of Neo-liberal Policies on the Poor and the Middle Classes / Marie Lall -- 2. Improving the Public Sector Schools in Pakistan: Strategies for Introducing Voice into the System / Faisal Bari -- 3. School Management Committees in Pakistan: Mobilizing Communities for Education? / Ayesha A. Awan -- 4. The Programme on School Improvement: A Participatory as Opposed to a Bureaucratic Approach / Wilfred J. Perera -- 5. The Politics of Citizenship and Difference in Sri Lankan Schools / Birgitte Refslund Sørensen -- 6. Reforming Gender Inequities in Education: Pakistan's Girls Middle School Stipend / Fareeha Zafar -- 7. Transforming Public Schools: Impact of the CRI Programme on Child Learning in Pakistan / Reehana R. Raza -- 8. Situating Multilingual Education in Nepali Context / Sushan Acharya -- 9.W(h)ither the Teaching Profession in India / Ajay Sharma. Note continued: 10. Teacher Education Continuum: A Case for Continuing Professional Development / Anjum Halai -- 11.A Conceptual Framework for Measuring the Quality of Pakistan's Higher Education System / Pervez Hoodbhoy -- 12. The Missing Dimension: Adult Literacy in South Asia / Seher Ahmad -- 13. Quality, Relevance, and Equity: Negotiating an Educational Development Strategy in Bangladesh / James H. Williams ER -