2 Sociological Foundations of Education · 2.2 Equality and welfare in education

2.2.1 Equality of opportunity and education of disadvantaged learners

Equality of educational opportunity means every child, whatever caste, class, sex, religion, language, region or disability, gets the same real chance to enter school, stay, learn and succeed; because children start unequal, the State gives extra help to the disadvantaged (Art. 15(4), 46), which the Kothari Commission called the main social aim of education.

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Key terms

  • equality of educational opportunity
  • educational equality as a fundamental right
  • public schools
  • Mary Wollstonecraft
  • RCI Act 1992
  • PWD Act 1995
  • UNCRPD 2006
  • equity
  • equalisation
  • inequality
  • causes of inequality
  • Coleman Report
  • Husen
  • Peter Westen
  • Natalie Rogoff
  • Bronfenbrenner
  • equalising inputs
  • equalising results
  • hidden curriculum of inequity
  • Basil Bernstein
  • restricted code
  • elaborated code
  • Oscar Lewis
  • culture of poverty
  • Gloria Ladson-Billings
  • culturally relevant pedagogy
  • Anil Sadgopal
  • Non-Formal Education
  • EGS and AIE
  • Janshala
  • Girijana Vidya Vikas Kendras
  • Akshara Sankranthi
  • school complex
  • Mahila Samakhya
  • Mid-Day Meal
  • IEDC
  • IEDSS
  • zero rejection
  • Salamanca Statement
  • RPWD Act 2016
  • divyang
  • Article 28
  • Article 350B
  • Jyotirao Phule
  • Hunter Commission
  • Educate Agitate Organise
  • protective discrimination
  • compensatory education
  • Kothari Commission
  • common school system
  • neighbourhood school
  • NPE 1968
  • NPE 1986 education for equality
  • NEP 2020
  • SEDGs
  • Article 15(4)
  • Article 46
  • Article 29
  • Article 30
  • Article 350A
  • 93rd Amendment
  • 103rd Amendment
  • EWS
  • RTE section 12(1)(c)
  • disadvantaged group
  • weaker section
  • socially disadvantaged
  • culturally disadvantaged
  • deprived child
  • first-generation learners
  • culturally responsive teaching
  • Pygmalion effect
  • SC
  • ST
  • ashram schools
  • Eklavya Model Residential Schools
  • girls' education
  • Durgabai Deshmukh
  • Hansa Mehta
  • Bhaktavatsalam
  • KGBV
  • Savitribai Phule
  • minorities
  • Sachar Committee
  • NCM
  • NCMEI
  • NCSC
  • NCST
  • welfare hostels
  • Article 371D

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