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SUMMARY:Seminar Series - Critical Dialogues on Research in Education &amp\
 ; International Development: Understanding ideas that matter in Indian Edu
 cation: why and how  - Padma M. Sarangapani \,  Professor and former Dean\
 , School of Education\, Tata Institute of Social Sciences\, Mumbai India
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:The current policy and reform space in Indian education is mar
 ked by several key conceptions\, central to the imagination of the ideals 
 and aspirations that are the driving forces of policy and reform.   By nam
 ing the field and phenomena in particular ways rather than others\, they p
 erform an ontological function\, give shape to the reform scape and create
  motivation and the logic of action in it.   Some of these terms include 
 ‘rote learning’\, ‘local knowledge’\, ‘independence’\, ‘girl
 s education’\, ‘examinations’\, ‘equality’\, ‘quality’\, ‘
 pluralism’\,  ‘relevance’ and ‘child-centred education’.  Concep
 tions ‘do their politics’ within national education systems in which t
 hey have particular histories and hence particular meanings.  So although 
 they are apparently familiar and similar across the world\, they need to b
 e understood contextually within specific intellectual traditions and hist
 ories.  In the first part of my talk I will elaborate and illustrate this 
 contextualisation with reference to Indian indigenous policy discussion st
 arting from the colonial period\, with reference to modern education.  In 
 the second part of my talk I will take up contextualisation with reference
  to the indigenous/vernacular and discuss three aspects:  the vernacular e
 ducation space as the object of reform\, the agent of reform as the vernac
 ular thinker\, and the vernacular/indigenous as a pre-modern and living no
 n-western intellectual and pedagogic tradition.   I will end with an outli
 ne of a proposal and methodology for a comparatist study of select key con
 cepts.\n\n
LOCATION:2S7 \, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8P
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