Pedagogies for Development The Politics and Practice of Child-Centred Education in India /

• Main Author: Sriprakash, Arathi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects ; 16
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; International and Comparative Education.; Sociology, general.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.

Pedagogies for Development takes a sociological approach to examine the introduction of child-centred education in contemporary Indian policy and school contexts. It investigates the promise of democratic learning in development discourses to ask how far child-centred models can address poverty and...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by the Series Editors; Rupert Maclean
• Acknowledgments.- List of Tables and Boxes
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction: Pedagogy and Development
• 2. Researching Pedagogic Reform
• 3. The Political Project of Child-centred Education in India
• 4. Education Reform in Karnataka: Two Pedagogies for Development
• 5. On Being a Teacher: Work Stories in Contexts of Change
• 6. Educating the Rural Child
• 7. Principles of Instruction
• 8. Nali Kali at Mallige Primary School
• 9. Learner-Centred teaching at Kamala Primary School
• 10. Child-centred Pedagogies and the Promise of Democratic Schooling
• Appendix: Notes on Caste
• Index.