Sociology of Education in India

Changing Contours and Emerging Concerns
Herausgeber: Nambissan, Geetha B; Rao, Srinivasa

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on presentations at a seminar on March 9-10, 2006 at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

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The book traces the trajectory, location, and concerns of the discipline of Sociology of Education (SoE) in India. It makes theoretical and empirical engagements with the emerging key concerns of education today, which include themes of equality, identity, cultural diversity, and exclusion. It insists upon an understanding of education as a social institution. It is the first collective re-appraisal of the journey of SoE in India since the 1960s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780198082866
• ISBN-10: 019808286X
• Artikelnr.: 36966371

Autorenporträt

Geetha B. Nambissan is Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Srinivasa Rao is Associate Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* List of Abbreviations
* Introduction: Sociology of Education in India-Trajectory, Location,
and Concerns (Geetha B. Nambissan and S. Srinivasa Rao)
* PART I: DISCIPLINARY TRAJECTORIES AND INSTITUTIONAL DOMAIN
* 1. Sociology of Education in India: An Autobiographical Account (
Suma Chitnis)
* 2. Sociology of Education and Sociology in India: Disciplinary
Boundaries and Institutional Spaces (Karuna Chanana)
* 3. Soft Disciplines and Hard Battles (Padma M. Sarangapani)
* 4. Opening Up the Black Box? Sociologists and the Study of Schooling
in India (Geetha B. Nambissan)
* 5. The Sociology of Educational Inequality in India: A Critique and a
New Research Agenda (Padma Velaskar)
* 6. Does Education Really Change Society? Theoretical Reflections on a
Case Study (Amman Madan)
* PART II: CONTEMPORARY CONCERNS AND EMERGING DISCOURSES
* 7. Gender, Childhood, and Work in the Nation: Voices and Encounters
in an Indian School (Nandini Manjrekar)
* 8. Caste and Social Discrimination: Nature, Forms, and Consequences
in Education (G.G. Wankhede)
* 9. Structural Exclusion in Everyday Institutional Life: Labelling of
Stigmatized Groups in an IIT (S. Srinivasa Rao)
* 10. Controlling Minds, Disciplining Bodies: Life inside a Madrasa (
Arshad Alam)
* 11. Reproduction of Indigenous Knowledge in Plural Cultures: Ayurveda
Education in Contemporary India (Leena Abraham)
* Notes on Contributors