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Shipra Publications Open And Distance Learning Equity And Access by Sitansu S Jena Kuldeep Agarwal Sukanta K Mahapatra (Ed )
Achieving Millennium Development goals is central to achieving Education for All. Societies and States in various parts of the world, particularly in developing countries, adopt several policies and strategies for achieving the primary goals of achieving equity, quality and access in education. But still wide inequality exists among different sections of society. There are hard-to-reach groups in society such as minorities, backward classes, physically challenged persons and women who are still not been able to access school education in spite of many programmes being devised to benefit them from formal education system. In this context, open schooling, as a viable tool has been playing a vital role in providing access for the disadvantaged sections of society.The present volume focuses on Equity and Access in Education, particularly in open schooling. It throws light on how different disadvantaged groups face multiple challenges with regard to accessibility to formal education system. The book explains how open schooling system as a whole helps in tackling the educational problems related to equity and access in education. This volume will be useful particularly for Teachers, Teacher Educators, Distance Educators, Curriculum Designers, Researchers, Educational Planners, Policy Makers and the Administrators.