Contextualising Educational Studies in India

Pradeep Kumar Choudhury teaches at Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Previously, he worked at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development and Public Health Foundation of India. His research has dealt with applied development economics, especially issues related to education, health and labour. He recently completed an international collaborative study with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, USA that assesses and improves student learning in engineering and higher education in an international comparative perspective.Suresh Babu G.S teaches at Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Before this, he was part of the faculty at University of Jammu for nine years. His research focuses on the postcolonial debates of subaltern communities in India and education's role in cultural politics. He has edited the book Education and the Public Sphere: Exploring the Structures of Mediation in Post-colonial India (Routledge 2019).