Graduate Research Seminar: India: past, present, and future

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• Kate Boehme, PhD History and Pallawi Sinha, PhD Education
• Friday 06 March 2015, 18:00-19:00
• Alison Shrubsole Room, Homerton College.

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Delocalising industry: Bombay’s entry into the global economy by Kate Boehme, PhD History

In this talk I will discuss the speculation mania and economic crash that crippled the Bombay economy in the 1860s, at the height of its industrial development, and how, in its recovery, the city’s business community created a model of commercial enterprise that built up Bombay as a world financial capital.

Emergent education in the homogenised world: the significance of integrating indigenous knowledge, cultural practices and skills towards future education in India by Pallawi Sinha, PhD Education

India’s educational dilemma, postcolonial mechanisms, indigenous communities and disappearance of culturally-enriched skills and practices frame the context of this study. In particular, the study intends to explore the interests, values, concepts and perspectives of the disengaged or indigenous peoples with regards to knowledge, learning and education. The literature chapter reviews the scholarship to analyse the conceptual space of this ‘marginalised’ voice within the dominant political, cultural and educational context. It establishes the postcolonial imperative, topical educational hegemony, and the relationship between arts, community and culture. The scholarship urges development of sustainable educational systems that are authentic, contextual and empower future citizenship. The aim of this research is to conduct a systematic, ethnomethological study that investigates indigenous practices through socio-political and cultural lenses in the context of education. It deconstructs ethnomethodology to substantiate its methodological relevance, ascertaining the community’s own path to self-determination and managing outsider-insider disparities.

Furthermore, it identifies how such methods empower the marginalised by enabling multimodal expressions and access to data that other methods may not elicit. The paper concludes the urgency for development of sustainable educational systems authentic to India, which empowers future citizenship. It directs a third space in education to reflect future pedagogic action, of difference not domination, of localisation not assimilation.

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