Mention 'government run primary schools in India' to anyone and the immediate response: 'monotony, uninterested teachers, dysfunctionality, rote memorisation and little learning'. The author of this unusual book argues that it is important to move beyond these obvious if basically true images, not only to re-examine our common perceptions of these schools but also to respond to and intervene in schools in more appropriate ways. Using the tools of an ...
A multidisciplinary ethnographic study, based on first-hand field research and fresh theoretical explorations, constitutes a unique `situated` and contextualised view of children, childhood, schooling and learning.
