Classrooms and playgrounds : mapping educational change, Kerala / by Ratheesh Kumar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kumar, Ratheesh.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Elementary--Aims and objectives--India--Kerala.

Education, Elementary.

Educational change--India--Kerala.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is schooling in our contemporary societies? Is it to equip students for functioning in an information culture and to develop skills that would enable them to become productive agents in a fast globalizing world? Or is it to develop the capability to think and analyze? Mapping the complex transitions that mark the primary education today in the state of Kerala, South-West India, this book offers fresh insights, both empirical and theoretical. Schooling here implies a set of cultural pra...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; APPENDIX I; APPENDIX II; APPENDIX IIA; APPENDIX IIB; APPENDIX III; APPENDIX IV; APPENDIX IVA; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-295) and index.

ISBN:

1-4438-2458-5

OCLC:

821179622