Zhao, Vicky Yiran;
Bhattacharjea, Suman;
Alcott, Benjamin;
(2022)
A slippery slope: early learning and equity in rural India.
Oxford Review of Education
10.1080/03054985.2022.2101442.
(In press).
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Abstract
There is near consensus that early childhood education and care (ECEC) is essential to children’s early development. A common corollary is that early learning will be pivotal to helping redress inequities in educational outcomes. We examine whether this is true among rural communities in the Indian states of Assam, Rajasthan, and Telangana. Specifically, we assess whether learning gains for the most disadvantaged are retained in comparison to more advantaged children who had lower initial learning levels. We find that lower-achieving, more advantaged children (as measured by mother’s education) soon overtake higher-achieving but less advantaged children. In contrast, higher-achieving girls remain ahead of lower-achieving boys in Assam and Telangana, although they are caught up in Rajasthan. Given the differing patterns across the states, we explore the extent to which these may be shaped by their respective social and policy contexts.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A slippery slope: early learning and equity in rural India |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03054985.2022.2101442 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2022.2101442 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Keywords: | Early years education, ECEC, equity, India, Assam, Rajasthan, Telangana |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10151168 |
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