Table of Contents
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
Pramod Bhatta 263
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 Index 389
Index 393