Lok Jumbish : utbildning och utveckling i norra Indien

Sammanfattning: The purpose of the study has been to recognise good development and the factors behind this development. We have chosen an aid-project co-financed first by the Swedish government and later by the government of Great Britain for our study. One of the conditions for good development, according to our chosen theory Another development, is peoples participation. To study good development and peoples participation we conducted a Minor Field Study (MFS) in Rajasthan in the north-west of India in June-August 2001. We had a hermeneutic approach and consequently accomplished interviews and participant observations in the Lok Jumbish project in Rajasthan. The state of Rajasthan is one of the poorest and least developed in India with high illiteracy. The project started out as a small scale micro-level initiative but has subsequently been integrated into state-wide strategies for meeting the educational needs of deprived rural communities. Lok Jumbish consists of peoples participation and grass-root level is responsibly for the projects progress. Although Lok Jumbish started as an educational project it has recognised other important forms of development such as women's development and gender equity.