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Education and Society: Themes, Perspectives, Practices concerns itself with the social issues and contexts that underpin education and learning in India. It begins with a focus on the possibilities opened up by education, whether these concern the individual, society or the world at large. Through an excellent selection of essays arranged in six thematic sections, this volume provides an overview of the major underlying concepts in the sociology of education, as well as of the processes and practices that explicate education in contemporary India. Most essays are grounded on empirical research and use ethnography in seeking to understand education from the perspective of students, teachers, as well as the institutional and non-institutional settings within which educational practices occur. The rich and panoramic introduction provides a broad canvas to the essays, which are intentionally both an academic work and a pedagogical aid, since education is both an intellectual discipline and also a profession.
Salient Features:
This work provides an overview of the major underlying themes in the sociology of education
All essays are based on empirical research and, using an ethnographic approach, seek to understand education in India
The book discusses social issues and contexts that underpin education in India
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Publisher’s Acknowledgements
List of Tables, Figure and Boxes
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Understanding Education - Ideas, Practice and Outcomes :Meenakshi Thapan
I. Education for the Good Citizen: Values,Ideals, Practices
1. Tagore, Dewey and the Imminent Demise of Liberal Education -Martha Nussbaum
2. Politics, Experience and Cognitive Enslavement: Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj - Vivek Dhareshwar
3. Private Virtue and Public Space: Education in a Fragile World - Radhika Herzberger
4. Schooling, Culture and Modernity - Sanjay Srivastava
II. Civic Education and the Making of Identities
5. Old and New Dilemmas in Indian Civic Education - Amman Madan
6. Pedagogy and Citizenship in Contemporary Society - Meenakshi Thapan
7. Formation of Religious Identity in Early Childhood - Latika Gupta
III. Inside Schools: Contexts, Processes, Practices
8. Disciplining the Saffron Way: Moral Education and the Hindu Rashtra - Peggy Froerer
9. School Culture: Rituals and Ceremonies - Meenakshi Thapan
10. Institutional Context, Classroom Discourse and Children’s Thinking: Pedagogy Re-examined Gaysu - R. Arvind
11. Politicians, Civil Servants or Professionals?: Teachers’ Voices on Their Work and Worth - Manabi Majumdar
IV. Educational Texts and Their Transmission
12. Text and Values - Krishna Kumar
13. Plotting the Contours of the Modern Nation: A Feminist Reading of Geography Textbooks - Dipta Bhog, Purwa Bharadwaj and Disha Mullick
14. Using Texts: An Ethnography of the English Classroom - Shalini Advani
V. Education and forms of Social Inequality
15. The Meaning of the Old School-Tie: Private Schools, Admission Procedures and Class Segmentation - Anne Waldrop
16. Educational Stratification, Dominant Ideology and the Reproduction of Disadvantage in India - Padma Velaskar
17. Creating an Enabling Environment - Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon
VI. Youth, Educational Outcomes and Dilemmas
18. Mortgaging the Future?: Indian Higher Education - Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta
19. Great Expectations: Youth in Contemporary India - Craig Jeffrey
20. Empty Citizenship: Protesting Politics in the Era of Globalization - Ritty Lukose
Index
About the Editor and ContributorsISBN - 9780199451319
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Pages : 608
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