Disjunctured reciprocity: paradoxes of community-school relationship in Nepal |
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| Authors: | Uma Pradhan Shivana Shrestha Karen Valentin |
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| Institution: | 1. Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKuma.pradhan@area.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0540-4085;3. Anthropology of Education and Globalisation, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark;4. Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmarkhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0585-4542 |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTCommunity-based school governance has been promoted as a popular policy for decentralisation of education around the world. Within this policy, schools are expected to create institutional spaces such as School Management Committees with an assumption of reciprocal relation between school and community. This article questions the simplistic assumption through an ethnographic study of community-school relationship in Nepal. While these relationships may conflict with the kind of reciprocity assumed in school governance policies, we argue that this disjunctured reciprocity, firstly, reflects the gap between policy blueprints and action, and, secondly, reveals the competing logics of community-school relations which remain unacknowledged. |
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| Keywords: | Reciprocity community schooling decentralisation Nepal |
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0540-4085;3. Anthropology of Education and Globalisation, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark;4. Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark