Youth, Skills and Education : Unpacking the Politics of Psychosocial Interventions (Hardcover)

1. Introduction - Global Agendas around Youth and Neoliberal

Development

1.0 Conceptions of Youth

1.1 Harnessing the Youth Dividend: Regulation and?Responsibilization' of Youth

1.2 Navigating Youthhood

1.3 About this book

2. The 'Psy Complex' and Development Work with Youth

2.0 The 'Psy-Sciences' and New Forms of Governance

2.1 Positive Youth Development and Entrepreneurial Youth

2.2 Positive Youth Development and the Proliferation of?Governance

3. Life Skills Education for 'Enterprise' or 'Educational Reform'?

3.0 The Generalization of Psycho-education and Youth

Development: the Indian Context

3.1 Life Skills Education - A Genealogical Examination

3.1.1 The Self-Help and Skills Revolution within Psychology

3.2 Emergence and Circulation in the Indian Context

3.2.1 The Targets of Life Skills Interventions

4. A Range of Actors in Indian Education

4.0 A Range of Actors and the Intent of Life Skilling

4.1 Life Skills Programmes as Middle-Class Cultural Capital

4.1.1 Imagine Possibilities (IP)

4.1.2 Viveka Youth Brigade (VYB)

4.1.3 Media for Change Limited (MFCL)

5. Technologies of Self - Life Skills Education and the Shaping of the

Entrepreneurial self

5.0 A Pedagogy for Discipline

5.1 The Pedagogic Format of LSE

5.1.1 Participation, and the Practices of 'care',?confession and 'visibilization'

5.1.2 Role of language within the programmes

5.1.3 Modulation of body rhythm, mood and behaviour

6. Curricular Agendas, Classroom Transactions and Social

Reproduction of Youth Identities

6.0 Classroom agendas and the reconstruction of youth selves

6.1 Meeting the expectations of schools

6.2 Meeting the ends of donors and funders

6.3 Meeting the middle-class vision of development

6.4 Meeting the patriarchal expectations of society

6.5 The entrepreneurial self: Educated but de-skilled and malleable

7. Cultural Disconnects and Youth Formations through Enterprise

and Social Reproduction

7.0 Field Realities and the Outcomes of LSE Programmes

7.0.1 Students' account of LSE

7.0.2 LSE and the affordances of better education

7.0.3 Facilitators and the production of a new professional?status

7.0.4 'Managers' and the production of 'distinction'

8. Psycho-regulation Programmes and 'Strategic Opportunizinf': Theorizing

the Posiibilities Youth Identity Formations

8.0 Local Contexts, Global Discourses and 'Cultural Disconnects':?Understanding the Responses to Psychosocial Interventions

8.1 LSE and Middle Class Cultural Capital

8.1.1 The Teacher Training Programme by IP

8.1.2 Lava Pit and fissures within team dynamics

8.2 Class, Self and Habitus

8.3 Governmentality, Power and the Possibilities for Resistance

8.4 'Strategic Opportunism' and the (Re)Production of Youth Identities

9. Conclusion

9.0 Developmentalism and Education

9.1 Youth Aspirations, Appropriations and Resistances

9.2 Alternative Posiibilities and Social Transformation through LSE?Programmes