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RECOUP Symposium at the 8th International Conference on Asian Youth and Childhoods 2007 November 22-24, Lucknow, India

Members of the RECOUP team at Cambridge organised two symposiums addressing issues of marginalisation and exclusion of young people in the Indian context. The symposiums brought together doctoral students, Indian researchers and RECOUP partners in India on a common forum to present and discuss their research. The symposiums were well attended and the conference as a whole was a success, with the media taking a keen interest in its proceedings. The following papers were presented:

Educating the Poor: Deceptions of private schooling - Shailaja Fennell

Too young to care: Young careers and poverty - Manasi Pande

'Acts of citizenship': Female para-teachers and gendered domesticity - Anju Saigal

Building unequal capabilities among Delhi's youth: Preparation for future roles through schooling, training and work - Meera Samson, Claire Noronha and Anuradha De

Teaching children of the Poor: Macro and Micro Perspectives - Padma Sarangapani and Arathi Sriprakash

Forgotten Youth: Disability and development in India - Nidhi Singal

Some notes on the discourses of youth sexuality in India