Yamini Aiyar
Centre for Policy Research (CPR)
Podcast
The RISE Podcast: Yamini Aiyar on 'Rewriting the Grammar of the Delhi Education System'
Yamini Aiyar speaks about her new book which documents the introduction of a new package of education reforms in Delhi public schools.
In this episode, Marla Spivack speaks to Yamini Aiyar about her new book, ‘Rewriting the Grammar of the Education System: Delhi’s Education Reform (A Tale of Creative Resistance and Creative Disruption)’, which documents the introduction of education reforms in Delhi public schools. They discuss some of the challenges faced throughout this reform as well as lessons that emerged from documenting the reform experience. These include the importance of understanding that everyone is part of a larger system which is conditioning the behaviours and actions of people within it, and the necessity (and challenges) of building consensus for learning throughout systems.
Links
- ‘Rewriting the Grammar of the Education System: Delhi’s Education Reform (A Tale of Creative Resistance and Creative Disruption)’ [Book] by Aiyar, Davis, Govindan, and Kapoor
- ‘The Limits of Accounting-Based Accountability in Education (and Far Beyond): Why More Accounting Will Rarely Solve Accountability Problems’ [Working Paper] by Honig and Pritchett
- ‘Is Knowledge Power? The Right to Information Campaign in Delhi’ [IDS Discussion paper Sussex; 2007] by Amita Baviskar
- ‘Documents and Bureaucracy’ by Michael Hull [article; 2012]
- ‘Video: Initiatives in India That Align Levels of Instruction with Goals and the Needs of Students’ by Aiyar, Banerji and Hwa
- Centre for Policy Research
- ‘India’s New National Education Policy: Evidence and Challenges’ [Insight Note] by Singh and Muralidharan
- ‘Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance in India’ [Working Paper] by Singh and Muralidharan
Guest biography
Yamini Aiyar is a research collaborator on the RISE India and Political Economy teams and the President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research (CPR). Her research interests are in the field of social policy and development. In 2008, she founded the Accountability Initiative at CPR. Under her leadership, the Accountability Initiative has produced significant research in the areas of governance, state capacity and social policy. It pioneered a new approach to tracking public expenditures for social policy programs and is widely recognised for running the country’s largest expenditure-tracking survey in elementary education. Her own research on social accountability, elementary education, decentralisation, and administrative reforms has received both academic and popular recognition.
Attribution
RISE is funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Programme is implemented through a partnership between Oxford Policy Management and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. The Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford supports the production of the RISE Podcast.
Producers: Joseph Bullough and Katie Cooper
Audio Engineer: James Morris
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