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Learning and Sustaining Agricultural Practices : The Dialectics of Cultivating Cultivation in Rural India / by Karen Haydock, Abhijit Sambhaji Bansode, Gurinder Singh, Kalpana Sangale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haydock, Karen, author.
- Series:
- International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education, 2214-4226 ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Study and teaching.
- Science.
- Education and state.
- Professional education.
- Vocational education.
- Human geography.
- Science Education.
- Educational Policy and Politics.
- Professional and Vocational Education.
- Human Geography.
- Local Subjects:
- Science Education.
- Educational Policy and Politics.
- Professional and Vocational Education.
- Human Geography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 313 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2021.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
- Summary:
- This book describes a participatory case study of a small family farm in Maharashtra, India. It is a dialectical study of cultivating cultivation: how paddy cultivation is learnt and taught, and why it is the way it is. The paddy cultivation that the family is doing at first appears to be ‘traditional’. But by observation and working along with the family, the authors have found that they are engaging in a dynamic process in which they are questioning, investigating, and learning by doing. The authors compare this to the process of doing science, and to the sort of learning that occurs in formal education. The book presents evidence that paddy cultivation has always been varying and evolving through chance and necessity, experimentation, and economic contingencies. Through the example of one farm, the book provides a critique of current attempts to sustain agriculture, and an understanding of the ongoing agricultural crisis.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Who are we, and what are we doing?
- Chapter 1. The Superficial Appearances
- Chapter 2. Dialectical Conflicts. Chapter 3. Formal Education vs Learning Cultivation
- Chapter 4. The Historical Development of Education Related to Agriculture in India
- Chapter 5. The Historical Development of Paddy Cultivation
- Chapter 6. A Deeper Understanding of the Process of Doing Paddy Cultivation
- Chapter 7. What is actually happening in formal education?
- Chapter 8. Conclusions and Implications. .
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783030640651
- 3030640655
- OCLC:
- 1244536539
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