Manabi Majumdar is a member of the academic faculty at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India. She has published on issues of human development and democracy.Jos Mooij is Associate Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Netherlands. Her main research interests are the politics of public policies, policy process, food policy, education policies, decentralisation, also in the context of India.

• 1. Introduction: Education and Inequality 2. Segmentation and Segregation: The Reproduction of Inequality in the Schooling System 3. State Action and Inaction in Elementary Education: Paradoxes within the Policy Process 4. Teachers’ Professionalism and Social Class: Ambivalences in the Life of Government School Teachers 5. Teachers and Children: Interactions in the Classroom 6. Pedagogy at the Grassroots: About Teaching Practices and Assessments 7. Quality and Equality: Interpreting Textbooks 8. Contesting Inequalities through Activism 9. Some Afterthoughts

Manabi Majumdar is a member of the academic faculty at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India. She has published on issues of human development and democracy.Jos Mooij is Associate Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Netherlands. Her main research interests are the politics of public policies, policy process, food policy, education policies, decentralisation, also in the context of India.

• 1. Introduction: Education and Inequality 2. Segmentation and Segregation: The Reproduction of Inequality in the Schooling System 3. State Action and Inaction in Elementary Education: Paradoxes within the Policy Process 4. Teachers’ Professionalism and Social Class: Ambivalences in the Life of Government School Teachers 5. Teachers and Children: Interactions in the Classroom 6. Pedagogy at the Grassroots: About Teaching Practices and Assessments 7. Quality and Equality: Interpreting Textbooks 8. Contesting Inequalities through Activism 9. Some Afterthoughts

Manabi Majumdar is a member of the academic faculty at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India. She has published on issues of human development and democracy.Jos Mooij is Associate Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Netherlands. Her main research interests are the politics of public policies, policy process, food policy, education policies, decentralisation, also in the context of India.

• 1. Introduction: Education and Inequality 2. Segmentation and Segregation: The Reproduction of Inequality in the Schooling System 3. State Action and Inaction in Elementary Education: Paradoxes within the Policy Process 4. Teachers’ Professionalism and Social Class: Ambivalences in the Life of Government School Teachers 5. Teachers and Children: Interactions in the Classroom 6. Pedagogy at the Grassroots: About Teaching Practices and Assessments 7. Quality and Equality: Interpreting Textbooks 8. Contesting Inequalities through Activism 9. Some Afterthoughts