HED4806 ASSIGNMENT 4 2025

HED4806 ASSIGNMENT 4 2025 The extract below is taken from chapter 9 of the prescribed book: Seroto, J, Davids, MN & Wolhuter, C. 2020. Decolonising education in the Global South. Cape Town: Pearson. Given the slow pace of structural change in the Indian economy, described in an earlier section, the pursuit of this education has created the following outcomes: A relatively small section of the population completed schooling and different levels of higher education (and they benefitted from the employment in the service sector after India opened up its economy). Most Indian people did not complete schooling and ended up in less productive agriculture or unskilled work. There was no major focus on mass education in India during the first four decades after its independence (Balakrishnan, 2010). Given the nature of the economy, there was a weak link between education and industrial development. Even when students pursued technical education, the focus was more on the higher end of such technical education and post-school certificate courses on vocational education did not get adequate support from people and governments.