Deswal, A. 2017. Business of Teacher Education in Haryana. Economic and Political Weekly, 52(11): 62-66. Teacher Education 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…
Jackson, P. (1994) Life in Classrooms. In Pollar, A. & Bourne, J. (ed.) Teaching and Learning in the Primary School. (pp. 113-118). London: Routledge. (Affiliate Link) 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…
लोक शिक्षक मंच (2016) हमारे शिक्षक. नई दिल्लीः लोक शिक्षक मंच।40 पृष्ठ 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 and…
Apple, M. W. 2008. Can schooling contribute to a more just society? Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 3:239. DOI: 10.1177/1746197908095134 The paper is written using Apple and Bean’s book ‘Democratic Schools’ as its base. The focus is on revisiting the debates of creating democratic school spaces as essential in “pursuit of social justice”. Through a…
Gulati, N. (2018). Aankhein Munde Kabutar: Yaunikta ki Abhivyati. Paathshala-Bheetar aur Baahar,1 (1): 43-55. For full text of the article, click here. The paper begins with a discussion on a July 2017 incident of a young boy being restricted from sitting in class XII boards post his hugging a peer in the school. The ensuing…
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 as any other media tend to evoke responses that publishers and authors count of capturing. Some of the links in this post may be affiliate…
Sainath. 1996. Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India’s Poorest Districts. New Delhi: Penguin. ISBN: 9780140259841 This is the Way We Go to School: Getting Educated in Rural India (pp. 47-68) Published in 1996, Sainath’s book captures stories from India’s poorest district. This section on education, presents three stories that represent the diverse settings in which education…
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…
