Publications & Resources
Our faculty, students and researchers work together everyday to contribute to a better world by grappling with urgent problems we are facing in India. We conduct rigorous work to produce high quality learning resources and publications to contribute to public discourse and social change. Here, we feature a sample from our work for everyone to access. You can explore featured resources, policies, and the latest publications from the University.
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Chapter in a Book
Inclusive Education in India: Examining Emerging Epistemologies
in Reframing Developmental Psychology: Perspectives from the Global South, Emerald Publishing Limited
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This chapter critically examines the different conceptions and emerging paradigms in the discourse on inclusion in the context of education in India. The researcher interrogates the nature of inclusive education and argues for an epistemology that emerges from the paradoxes, diversity and disparities that characterise schools and classrooms in the Indian context. In doing so, the researcher scrutinises the emerging trends in education research and the ‘new’ epistemology from the global North which attributes agency to the practitioner, the parent and the child to participate in the education discourse, shifting the equation of power in the construction of knowledge. In this chapter, she examines the connotations of these new, emerging trends for research, practice, and policy on inclusion for India. The chapter presents the tensions in arriving at conceptions of inclusive education and how that has impacted policy and its realisation in practice. The central thesis of the paper is constructed through a close examination of the different forms of marginalisation that characterise Indian classrooms, the situation of the disadvantaged child, the parent and the teacher in the context of education.
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Chapter in a Book
A Nayi, Nai Talim : Reinventing Gandhian education for today and tomorrow: A case study of the Ragi Project, Bangalore, India
in Routledge
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- School of Development
Abstract
It is easy to lose hope in the future. The 20th-century growth model is no longer viable as is evident from the spiralling climate crisis. At the time of writing this paper, the atmospheric carbon dioxide reading is a record high of 417 ppm. The current COVID-19 outbreak (and prediction of more such pandemics) is a grim sign of humanity’s distorted relationship with nature. Scientifc data related to the breaching of four of the nine planetary boundaries puts a dent on the aspirations and chase for unfettered economic growth and increasing material wealth. In reality, it is and always has been a dance of death resulting in several crises that we encounter today – extreme inequality, rising populism, degrading of our natural environments and violence and injustice of various kinds. Mahatma Gandhi warned of such a fate for India and the world when he wrote, “…like the proverbial moth (India) will burn itself eventually in the fame round which it dances more and more furiously”
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