Baroque

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Baroque Podcast

Baroque is shorthand for a pause in our journey as fellow travellers, a pause which marks not a break from the past, but a time to look back and then look ahead. This time, with greater clarity. Conversations with influential companions, their stories, and through their individual journeys, insights about the art and craft of public policy-making. To Get in touch, baroquepodcast@gmail.com

  1. 18/02/2023

    the Work/Labour Faultline:

    We are moving towards a brief hiatus. Our recall of the kaam versus shram debate, which would begin a long silence on the issue of child labour, is a good place to mark a pause on this journey.  Will be back soon....

    9 min

  2. 07/09/2021

    Questioning Claims or Questioning Intentions? Backstory of the term advocacy statistics

    Making the argument, that children out of school are working, required the presentation of information to back the claim. These statistics, use a range of definitions, some more liberal than others. Reason and evidence, are used to support a claim. Reason and evidence can also be used to challenge an argument presented. When argument is challenged, not through evidence, but by the questioning of intention, a new battleground is created. The backstory of advocacy statistics.

    7 min

  3. 31/08/2021

    Intertwined Tales: Foundation of a public argument

    When writing the story of education, it becomes impossible, to not address the issue of child labour. Just as when telling the story of child labour, it is not feasible, to not engage with the education system. The two tales are linked, one blends into the other, measuring one, provides the framework for success on another. This insight, would lead to the framing of the important public argument, All Children out of school are child labourers.

    8 min

  4. 24/08/2021

    August 24, 1789 and 1991: When The World Changed Quietly.

    August 24, is one of those days, when the world changes, quietly.  In 1789, the French Assembly, proclaimed freedom of speech on August 24th.  And three days later on August 27th, the Assembly, finally accepted, the Lafayette version of the Rights of Man and Citizens.   In 1985, Gorbachev, began the process of recognizing the market as a civilisational entity. A shift from the Soviet understanding of the market as an invention of capitalism. On August 24, 1991, Gorbachev, after surviving a failed coup and spending two days under house arrest, resigned as General Secretary of the Party, and by the end of the year the USSR ceased to exist.  For teachers the vanguard of the education process, teaching from pages that were different from the world changing was a challenge, then as it is now.

    9 min

  5. 17/08/2021

    Veiled Future: What awaits girls and women who want education and their place in the sun

    The replacement of the democratically elected government with a faith-led autocracy, in Afghanistan has been met with shock and awe. Mainstream media conversations have raised the possibility of the return to the dark days of the 20th century, when girls were denied access to education.  The reality is likely to be an expansion of what has been happening in the provinces, during the past decade, where the Taliban has been de facto control. In these places, the official educators, administrators and providers, have negotiated on ground compromises. What this has meant, is the giving up, of final decision-making power, in key areas, recruitment, and curriculum. In turn, the Taliban have provided support in on-ground monitoring of teachers, assuring lowering of absenteeism. And when faced with determination, they have shown to have been willing to compromise. So co-education has been allowed to continue, albeit with a curtain separating girls and boys. It is this restricted future that awaits children going forward.  Further Readings 1. Allen, John R and Felbab-Brown, Vanda (2020) The Fate of Women's Rights in Afghanistan https://www.brookings.edu/essay/the-fate-of-womens-rights-in-afghanistan/ 2. Afghanistan Study Group (2021) Afghanistan Study Group Final Report https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/afghanistan_study_group_final_report_a_pathway_for_peace_in_afghanistan.pdf 3. Rubin, Barnett and Rudeforth, Clancy (2016) Enhancing Access to Education: Challenges and Opportunities in Afghanistan https://cic.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/enhancing_access_education_may23_final.pdf

    11 min

  6. 10/08/2021

    Blended Financing & Anticipating the State's Response

    Here, we take a look at the last years of educational financing, with the integration of new private sector sources, through the lens of State responsibility.  Further Reading  Convergence Blog Post: Unlocking Financing for Investment into Education https://www.convergence.finance/news-and-events/news/2j6ZqZWOFCdDRLyI2bfOQm/view Arvind Panagriya (2004): India in the 1980s and 1990s: A triumph of Reforms. IMF Working Paper https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2004/wp0443.pdf (last accessed August 10, 2021) Vijay Joshi (2017), India's Economic Reforms: Reflections on the Unfinished Agenda, 15th L.K.Jha Memorial Lecture., December 11, 2017 https://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Publications/PDFs/LKJHA235F92F8EBFB4E119129D18BA579628C.PDF (last accessed August 10, 2021)

    10 min

  7. 03/08/2021

    Anticipating State Behaviour: What the first year of the New Education Policy tells us about the Future

    Context is a powerful predictor of State Behaviour. What Context does not do however, is help us identify which areas, will receive more state attention.  Further Readings Keynes, J.M. (1919) The Economic Consequences of the Peace https://openlibrary.org/works/OL35914W (last accessed August 1, 2022) Thucydides History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War_done_into_English_by_Richard_Crawley (1914) http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22889422M/ (last accessed August 1, 2022) https://www.policycircle.org/life/off-the-yellow-brick-road-the-five-futures-that-the-new-education-policy-promises/ (last accessed, August 2, 2021).

    9 min

  8. 27/07/2021

    One chart that tells the convoluted story of progress

    The National Family Health Survey began life in 1991. It would soon gain credibility and acceptance. What makes the NFHS particularly valuable, has been its ability to shed light on difficult to measure facets of state-society-family-individual interaction. One such area, is child labour.  Click on the chart below to get a better understanding of the narrative of progress. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/incidence-of-child-labour-in-india In 2000, the NSSO survey, had already shown that 5.2 per cent of children were working. That there were reasons, why the government was reluctant to collect disaggregated information on child labour would emerge when the National Family Health Survey, in 2005 would show that the child labour figure, was 15.2 per cent. This was substantially higher than the NSSO figure, which had just a year, earlier shown, that there had been a drop in the percentage of child labour, from 5.2 per cent to 4.2 per cent. This fall is a figure that the government could use to claim success in the struggle to end child labour.

    15 min
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Baroque is shorthand for a pause in our journey as fellow travellers, a pause which marks not a break from the past, but a time to look back and then look ahead. This time, with greater clarity. Conversations with influential companions, their stories, and through their individual journeys, insights about the art and craft of public policy-making. To Get in touch, baroquepodcast@gmail.com

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  • Creator
    vijayalakshmi balakrishnan
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    27
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    Clean
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