Micropolitics of Educational Access and Quality: Reflections from the Interactional Patterns in Rural Schooling

Abstract

This is an attempt to explore the interactional patterns between ‘education quality’ and ‘micropolitics’ by capturing the narratives of stakeholders feeling of ‘being’ and ‘doing’ a particular rolein two selected rural schools of Karnataka. Decline in birth rates, changing socio-economic conditions illustrate some demographic reasons for decline in ‘schooling access’ and ‘education quality’. Micro political processes surrounding availability of school choices, neglect of classroom transactions, fear towards the bureaucratic procedures and neglect of core activities in school environment are significant reasons for degradation of school quality which have significant bearing on the community mobilization and social work practice in these context