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How can we use textbooks to teach our students about forests from direct observation of local ecosystems? In ‘Teaching about forests: Interpreting curricular aims’ a government school teacher explores national curricular aims within a state’s cultural history. ‘Teaching about forests amidst sand dunes’ shows how a teacher educator extends dense, wet forest examples to community-managed scrub forests in arid landscapes. ‘Teaching about forests in the laboratory of the real world’ uses a journalist’s lens to reveal the uneven impacts of conservation models on forest-dependent communities. Together, these stories show how we can use the textbook to turn our surrounding environments into living, breathing science classrooms.
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This paper documents that despite relatively robust output growth, India has experienced a marked and puzzling slowdown in labour productivity over the last decade. This we argue, is partly because of a intensification in dualism. While employment rates have risen, across most kinds of occupations, there is a proportionately greater shift toward self-employment and informal activities (especially among women), which are lower productivity sectors. Overall we document a sustained reversal in labour reallocation toward lower-productivity sectors, especially towards agriculture. We show that this pattern is unusual in international perspective. Sectoral, household, and gender-based evidence indicates that rising per capita incomes have been sustained through labour intensification despite stagnant or declining earnings per worker. An additional and puzzling fact is that there has been a decline in labour productivity growth even in larger firms. Taken together, the findings point to an intensification of dualism-with some growth in formal higher value added activity being offset by much larger growth in activity in lower value added sectors.
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