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Elaborate the meaning of the term ‘equality of educational opportunity’. Discuss education as a medium of cultural reproduction and social transformation.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Education System and Social Change

Equality of educational opportunity means that a child's educational chances should not be determined by the circumstances of birth — class, caste, gender, region or religion. The difficulty is that the term has never held still: it has migrated from equal legal access, through equal provision, to equality of results. Education both transmits inherited advantage…

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  • The meaning: four successive readings
  • Education as cultural reproduction
  • Education as social transformation
  • Conclusion

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