Pedagogies for development [electronic resource] : the politics and practice of child-centred education in India / Arathi Sriprakash.

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...

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Main Author: Sriprakash, Arathi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, 2012.
Series:Education in the Asia-Pacific region ; v. 16.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: pedagogy and development
  • Researching pedagogic reform
  • The political project of child-centered education in India
  • Education reform in Karnataka: two pedagogies for development
  • On being a teacher: work stories in contexts of change
  • Educating the rural child
  • Principles of instruction
  • Nali Kali in Mallige Primary School
  • Learner-centered teaching at Kamala Primary School
  • Child-centered pedagogies and the promise of democratic schooling.