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Educating youth : regulation through psychosocial skilling in India

Title
Educating youth : regulation through psychosocial skilling in India / R. Maithreyi.
Author
Maithreyi, R.
Publication
  • New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : Sage Publications, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Description
xiv, 275 pages; 23 cm
Summary
Educating Youth: Regulation through Psychosocial Skilling in India studies the rise in skill-based developmental interventions for young people that aim to harness youth potential. Tracing these changes to the neoliberalization of education and training globally, this book discusses how a range of training programs, from social and personality development skills to employability and vocational skills, seek to cultivate an ethic of self-responsibility through skilling, to overcome structural disadvantage among the marginalized youth. Examining one such form of training in depth, Life Skills Education or LSE, that is advocated by international organizations, such as WHO and UNICEF, and popularized in India by various actors--from the state departments of education to local non-governmental organisations and middle-class citizens--this book shows how these programmes get adapted and modified within the Indian context. It demonstrates how authoritarian adult-child relations, caste inequalities and rote culture inflect the messages for self-development that the programmes transmit. Discussing the impact of these psychosocial skilling programmes observed in the Indian context, the book reflects on the cultural disconnects and internal limitations of liberal, progressive and experiential pedagogies in achieving intended outcomes.
Subject
  • Education > India
  • Youth development > India
  • Soft skills > India
  • Life skills > India
  • Jeunesse > Développement > Inde
  • Compétences non techniques > Inde
  • Life skills
  • Education
  • Soft skills
  • Youth development
  • India
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
  • 9391370039
  • 9789391370039
  • 9789391370107
  • 9391370101
  • 9789391370084 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9789391370091 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2021941446
OCLC
  • on1258675472
  • 1258675472
  • SCSB-14595695
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries