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Ek Adhyaapak Shikshak Ki Diary-V: Acche Bachhe kaise? Aise. – Ravikaant

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Ravikaant. (2017) “Ek Adhyaapak Shikshak ki Diary – V” (Diary of a Teacher Educator-V), “Acche Bacche kaise? –Aise” (What are good children like? – Like this.), Shiksha Vimarsh, 19(5): 41-45. (September- October, 2017) The paper begins by discussing the stressors and dilemmas faced by school teachers, particularly those in the government school system, on an everyday basis. Systemic…

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On Education. Basudev Chatterji

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Chatterji, B (2015). On Education. Economic and Political Weekly, L(34): 39-43.Chaterji presents his perspective on education in India, referring to it as one of the greatest challenges of contemporary times. He begins the paper by highlighting the significant role of Universities across the world in the process of development, particularly in their role as the breeding grounds…

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Negotiating the ‘Social’ in Elementary School Social Science. (Venkatesh)

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Venkatesh, K. 2017. Negotiating the ‘Social’ in Elementary School Social Sciences. Economic and Political Weekly,  LII (24): 169-172. The paper begins by raising the fundamental question of what constitutes Social Science at the school level. The argument of Mills (1959) is used to resolve the debate of including the older discipline of History into the…

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Gujarat: Patriarchy Revisited – A Dress Code for Teachers. N Manjrekar

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Manjrekar, N. (2013) Gujarat: Patriarchy Revisited – A Dress Code for Teachers. Economic and Political Weekly, 48(43) The paper addresses the phenomenon of making a dress code compulsory for teachers. This in turn points towards the authoritarian approach of bureaucracy as also towards the attempt to curtail the freedom of teachers, in their personal domain…

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Business of Teacher Education in Haryana. Anita Deswal.

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Deswal, A. 2017. Business of Teacher Education in Haryana. Economic and Political Weekly, 52(11): 62-66. The paper begins by establishing the significant role of teachers in the development of children and of the nation at large. This builds the base for the need of a sound teacher education system. Deswal enlists the various reforms in…

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Humare Shikshak. Lok Shikshak Manch

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yksd f’k{kd eap (2016) gekjs f’k{kd- ubZ fnYyh% yksd f’k{kd eapA 40 i`’B The booklet begins by presenting a summary of the lives and works of educationists. While some of these educationists have been recognized for their contribution, others have not got their due. Situated in pre-independence India, the educationists differ across class, caste, religious…

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Life in Classrooms. Philip Jackson

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Jackson, P. (1994) Life in Classrooms. In Pollar, A. & Bourne, J. (ed.) Teaching and Learning in the Primary School. (pp. 113-118). London: Routledge. The chapter is an extract from Jackson’s book titled Life in Classrooms. It addresses various aspects of school life. It brings to the fore that not all aspects of school life are celebrated…

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On Terrorism: Illusion and Reality. A Ranjan.

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Ranjan, A. 2011. On Terrorism: Illusion and Reality. Lucknow: Rahul Foundation. pp.35. ISBN: 978-81-906415-6-2.The essay elaborates on an understanding of terrorism with special focus on comparing it to people’s revolution. The emphasis is on tracing the history of people’s movements and comparing them to what are labelled as “terrorist movements”.It makes an important distinction in…

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Principles of Teaching. Constance Kamii and Rheta DeVries

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Kamii, C., & DeVries, R. (1976). Piaget, Children, and Number: Applying Piaget’s theory to the Teaching of Elementary Number. Washington, D.C: National Association for the Education of Young Children. ISBN: 0-912674-49-0 (Guest Post by Alprata Ahuja) Chapter 2 – Principles of Teaching (pp. 11-25) The principles discussed in this chapter are implications of Piaget’s theory to teaching particularly to teaching of numbers.  1….

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Texts and Values. Krishna Kumar.

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Education and Society: Themes, Perspectives and Practices 2015 Ed. Meenakshi Thapan New Delhi OUP ISBN: 9780199451319 Chapter 12: Texts and Values Krishna Kumar pp. 345-357 In this chapter, Kumar raises fundamental questions on the ‘patterns of response’ that are evoked by texts. Acknowledging that response is person-specific, the author goes on to highlight that texts…