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Book review by MWF Fellow Yamini Agarwal

R. Maithreyi’s, Educating Youth: Regulation through Psychosocial Skilling in India. New Delhi: SAGE Publications

Under the neoliberal shifts in education, motivated by the global knowledge economy, changes in the conceptualisation and practice of education and its subjects have been firmly set in place. Curriculum, its transaction, teachers’ training and preparing students for the ‘right’ social and economic life have undergone massive transformations influenced by forces that are largely determined by the market in education. These markets are represented by various agencies that have introduced frameworks that restructure discourses in relation to education, in tandem with the global agendas of profiteering, not necessarily contextualised for a particular place or time. Also redefined are the psycho-social aspects of education—the ideas of students’ well-being and success, developed top-down by such agencies that see its subjects as both homogenous and those with an urgent need to be ‘fixed’ to meet the needs of the new economy.

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