Education and Society (Hardback)  | Released: 30 Mar 2015

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 intellectualdiscipline, and also a profession.About the Author: Meenakshi Thapan, Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of DelhiTable of Contents: Acknowledgements
Publisher�s Acknowledgements
List of Tables, Figure, and Boxes
List of Abbreviations xvii
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
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 Contributors