(Part 1 of a Series) Guest Post by Utkarsh Kumar* (Views expressed are personal.) I have heard the stories of the times when being a teacher, especially a school teacher, was the defining stick of moral compass of the community around him/her. You see the world being measured with the moral behaviour of a teacher….
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…
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…
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…
