Education and society : Themes, perspectives, practices / edited by Meenakshi Thapan.

Contributor(s):

Thapan, Meenakshi [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropologyPublisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, c2015Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 587 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780199451319 (hardback).
0199451311

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.430954 EDU 23 013077

LOC classification:

LC191.8.I4 .E38 2015

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Contents:

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 Contents note continued: 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 / 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 / Ritu Menon VI.YOUTH, EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES, AND DILEMMAS 18.Mortgaging the Future?: Indian Higher Education / Pratap Bhanu Mehta Contents note continued: 19.Great Expectations: Youth in Contemporary India / Craig Jeffrey 20.Empty Citizenship: Protesting Politics in the Era of Globalization / Ritty Lukose.

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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
Contents note continued: 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 / 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 / Ritu Menon
VI.YOUTH, EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES, AND DILEMMAS
18.Mortgaging the Future?: Indian Higher Education / Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Contents note continued: 19.Great Expectations: Youth in Contemporary India / Craig Jeffrey
20.Empty Citizenship: Protesting Politics in the Era of Globalization / Ritty Lukose.

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