This essay examines the recommendations on vocationalised education contained in the NCF 2005 and suggests that its definition is deeply entrenched within the ideology which promotes it. In India, the challenge to it is more political than pedagogical, and surprisingly comes mainly from the Dalits. There is therefore a need to demonstrate that it can be emancipatory in both a class and caste sense.
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