This edited volume offers new analytical and methodological approaches to the study of education in the post-pandemic educational context, through case studies from countries in South Asia such as Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Part 1: RETHINKING LEARNING 1. Calculations and Discourses of Deficit in Indian Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: 'Learning Loss' 2. Reflections on education in the wake of Covid-19 in Nepal: Learning Loss or Schooling Loss? 3. Tänani Dapha Khalä's apprenticeship program: Revitalising indigenous knowledge during a global pandemic 4. Negotiating Space and Equity in the On/Offline Classroom: The Hostel, the Home and the Faceless Screen 5. 'Re-thinking' Teacher preparedness in the (post) pandemic Sri Lanka Part 2: RETHINKING EDUCATION INEQUALITIES 6. Rethinking the neighbourhood school in (post-)pandemic India: Synchronicity and segregation 7. A Pernicious Combination of Pandemic and Kashmir Conflict for students in the Valley: A 'Double Lockdown' 8. The Crisis of Education Among Marginalised Learners in India during the Pandemic: Reneged on the Promise of Access 9. Dismal Lives of Women Teachers Working in Low-Cost Private Schools in India: Politics of Precarity 10. The wellbeing of private school teachers during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal Part 3: RETHINKING TECHNOLOGIES OF EDUCATION 11. A phenomenological inquiry into learners' experience of consonance and dissonance during the pandemic in India: Learning in the time of crisis 12. Opportunities and Challenges of Tele Schooling: Lessons from Pakistan 13. The future of online teaching in the Faculties of Management in Sri Lanka: A means to an end or an end to a means? 14. School Practicum Experience in Initial Teacher Education during times of Disruptions: The Case of Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka