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CATEGORIES:Education\, Equality and Development (EED)  Group 
 Seminars
SUMMARY:Seminar Series - Critical Dialogues on Research in
  Education &amp\; International Development: Under
 standing ideas that matter in Indian Education: wh
 y and how  - Padma M. Sarangapani \,  Professor an
 d former Dean\, School of Education\, Tata Institu
 te of Social Sciences\, Mumbai India
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20150312T160000
UID:TALK57848AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/57848
DESCRIPTION:The current policy and reform space in Indian educ
 ation is marked by several key conceptions\, centr
 al to the imagination of the ideals and aspiration
 s that are the driving forces of policy and reform
 .   By naming the field and phenomena in particula
 r ways rather than others\, they perform an ontolo
 gical function\, give shape to the reform scape an
 d create motivation and the logic of action in it.
    Some of these terms include ‘rote learning’\, ‘
 local knowledge’\, ‘independence’\, ‘girls educati
 on’\, ‘examinations’\, ‘equality’\, ‘quality’\, ‘p
 luralism’\,  ‘relevance’ and ‘child-centred educat
 ion’.  Conceptions ‘do their politics’ within nati
 onal education systems in which they have particul
 ar histories and hence particular meanings.  So al
 though they are apparently familiar and similar ac
 ross the world\, they need to be understood contex
 tually within specific intellectual traditions and
  histories.  In the first part of my talk I will e
 laborate and illustrate this contextualisation wit
 h reference to Indian indigenous policy discussion
  starting from the colonial period\, with referenc
 e to modern education.  In the second part of my t
 alk I will take up contextualisation with referenc
 e to the indigenous/vernacular and discuss three a
 spects:  the vernacular education space as the obj
 ect of reform\, the agent of reform as the vernacu
 lar thinker\, and the vernacular/indigenous as a p
 re-modern and living non-western intellectual and 
 pedagogic tradition.   I will end with an outline 
 of a proposal and methodology for a comparatist st
 udy of select key concepts.\n\n
LOCATION:2S7 \, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cam
 bridge\, CB2 8PQ
CONTACT:Ann Waterman
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