Faculty member, Jindal School of Government & Public Policy @JSGP_JGU | Qualitative Sociologist | Education studies | Public Policy | JNU alumna | Cat-parent
Amused and amazed by economists discovering the three decades old findings of Farida Abdullah Khan (Jamia Millia Islamia University), which are well-known in education and critical pedagogy circles. +
https://t.co/Ifc2ggYV7g
The NCF 2005 textbooks met with mixed responses from teachers. Their resistance to teach 'differently' also drew attention to the ways in which teachers themselves understand/train in maths and teach it in classrooms inhabited by 1st generation learners. /
It was one of the first attempts to bridge the distance between 'real-world' mathematics and the procedural forms of teaching mathematics in formal school classrooms. +
Moving beyond the binaries of 'alternative' and 'formal' education. My review on Janaki Nair's edited volume on alternative education in post-Independence India, out in the @TheIndiaForum
Innovative school programmes to build more appropriate ways of learning and teaching ultimately floundered on the question of integration with the formal education system.
@subrvidya on Janaki Nair's 'Un/Common Schooling' published by @OrientBlackSwan.
https://t.co/yVfWnWvGxN