Kirjahaku

The Indian education system impacts all of us directly or indirectly at various points in our lives. We are often critical and angry, and readily offer solutions that nobody seems willing to implement. In this selection of shorter essays, Krishna Kumar takes us into what he calls the 'inner world of education'. We go inside schools and training institutes, delve into the public examination system and textbooks, to analytically distinguish the system from the concept of education. At the same time, the author alerts us to the wider cultural, economic, and technological factors that influence the system and its key players-the students and teachers. This second edition of A Pedagogue's Romance presents some additional material along with an updated introduction. Full of creative ideas presented in an accessible style and with passion, the volume will attract teachers, decision-makers, activists, guardians, and students.

This book represents the first attempt to conceptualize the social and cultural impact of transnational enterprises on host nations and to provide empirical and analytical material on the subject. Well-known social scientists focus on three critical areas: social inequalities, knowledge systems, and lifestyles and values. Collectively, they advance

This book represents the first attempt to conceptualize the social and cultural impact of transnational enterprises on host nations and to provide empirical and analytical material on the subject. Well-known social scientists focus on three critical areas: social inequalities, knowledge systems, and lifestyles and values. Collectively, they advance

In retracting from the popular view that India’s modern educational policy was shaped almost entirely by Macaulay, this incisive work reveals the complex ideological and institutional rubric of the colonial educational system. It examines its wide-ranging and lasting impact on curriculum, pedagogy, textbooks, teachers’ role and status, and indigenous forms of knowledge. Recounting the nationalist response to educational reforms, the book reinforces three major quests: justice as expressed in the demand for equal educational opportunities for the lower castes; self-identity as manifest in the urge to define India’s educational needs from within its own cultural repertoire; and the idea of progress based on industrialization. An exceptional contribution to educational theory, including a nuanced discussion of caste, gender and girls’ education, this book will be invaluable to teachers, scholars and students of education, modern Indian history and sociology of education, and policy makers.

In retracting from the popular view that India’s modern educational policy was shaped almost entirely by Macaulay, this incisive work reveals the complex ideological and institutional rubric of the colonial educational system. It examines its wide-ranging and lasting impact on curriculum, pedagogy, textbooks, teachers’ role and status, and indigenous forms of knowledge. Recounting the nationalist response to educational reforms, the book reinforces three major quests: justice as expressed in the demand for equal educational opportunities for the lower castes; self-identity as manifest in the urge to define India’s educational needs from within its own cultural repertoire; and the idea of progress based on industrialization. An exceptional contribution to educational theory, including a nuanced discussion of caste, gender and girls’ education, this book will be invaluable to teachers, scholars and students of education, modern Indian history and sociology of education, and policy makers.

This is a story of Karthick & Diya who met/crossed paths 5 times over the course of a decade and both of them got attracted to each other but never expressed.Does all this happen because of coincidence or because of this Universe?Laws of Universe supported their love or not?Did they join hands? Was this a story with a feel-good ending or not? READ THE STORY TO GET IT ALL CLARIFIED

This essay examines the history of the Indian subcontinent and the Partition of 1947 from a pedagogical perspective. How does education shape political rivalry and hostility? The Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947—the violence that followed it, and its living legacy of rival nationalisms—has made a deep and pervasive impact on education in both India and Pakistan. In Learning to Live with the Past, educationist Krishna Kumar dwells on the complex terrain every history teacher has to navigate: how to make the past come alive without running the risk of creating a desire to lose this “pastness.” Substantiating this question with a wealth of experiences gained from his extensive research on history textbooks, as well as his interactions with students and teachers in both countries, Kumar explores the integral function the discipline of history plays in the project of nation-building. To help children learn to live with the past, Kumar amplifies the need for spaces that create possibilities for inquiries into a “longer” common heritage shared by South Asia without necessarily denying a national narrative or encouraging an urge to undo the past.

यह पुस्तक लड़कियों के मानस पर डाली जाने वाली सामाजिक छाप की जांच करती है । वैसे तो छोटी लड़की को बच्ची कहने का चलन है, पर उसके दैनंदिन जीवन की छानबीन ही यह बता सकती है कि लड़कियों के सन्दर्भ में 'बचपन' शब्द की व्यंजनाएँ क्या हैं । कृष्ण कुमार ने इन व्यंजनाओं की टोह लेने के लिए डॉ परिधियाँ चुनी हैं । पहली परिधि है घर के सन्दर्भ में परिवार और बिरादरी द्वारा किए जाने वाले समाजीकरण की । इस परिधि की जांच संस्कृति के उन कठोर और पीने औजारों पर केन्द्रित है जिनके इस्तेमाल से लड़की को समाज द्वारा स्वीकृत औरत के सांचे में ढाला जाता है । दूसरी परिधि है शिक्षा की जहाँ स्कूल और राज्य अपने सीमित दृष्टिकोण और संकोची इरादे के भीतर रहकर लड़की को एक शिक्षित नागरिक बनाते हैं । लड़कियों का संघर्ष इन डॉ परिधियों के भीतर और इनके बीच बची जगहों पर बचपन भर जारी रहता है । यह पुस्तक इसी संघर्ष की वैचारिक चित्रमाला है ।.