Education and Inequity: Perspectives from South Asia

Education and Inequity: Perspectives from South Asia
Research Symposium

Date: Friday, 24 May 2024

Venue: Margaret Thatcher Centre, Somerville College, University of Oxford

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.

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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