{"title":"Innovative initiatives to improve access to education in urban slums: A critical review of mobile school education programs","authors":"Sonalika Ray, Surajit Chakravarty","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105748","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research assesses the impact and effectiveness of Mobile School Education Programs in Indian slums. Quantitative success metrics are combined with qualitative narratives of children's aspirations to illuminate the transformative impact of these programs. The study's adaptive assessment framework significantly addresses the identified literature gap by analyzing and synthesizing the impact of these programs in Indian slums. The study examines accessibility, transformation, technology integration, and parental involvement. It underscores the importance of tailored alternative education models. Despite inherent subjectivity and acknowledged limitations, the findings provide crucial insights for refining programs and advocating policies for access to education in Indian slums.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"159 ","pages":"Article 105748"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cities","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275125000484","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"URBAN STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This research assesses the impact and effectiveness of Mobile School Education Programs in Indian slums. Quantitative success metrics are combined with qualitative narratives of children's aspirations to illuminate the transformative impact of these programs. The study's adaptive assessment framework significantly addresses the identified literature gap by analyzing and synthesizing the impact of these programs in Indian slums. The study examines accessibility, transformation, technology integration, and parental involvement. It underscores the importance of tailored alternative education models. Despite inherent subjectivity and acknowledged limitations, the findings provide crucial insights for refining programs and advocating policies for access to education in Indian slums.
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Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy. The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.