Sarwate, Parth
(2008)
Political agenda of education - a study of colonialist
and nationalist ideas (Book review).
Learning Curve (11).
pp. 11-12.
Abstract
The state of education in India today concerns us all.
The rote memorization of texts, the supremacy of the text book, the dictatorial role of the teacher in the classroom, the finality of the examination in deciding
the worth of the student’s achievement, the question
of gender and caste, the government led and delivered curriculum and many other challenges facing the education system in India are all possibly symptoms or causes of our colonialist and nationalist past. Krishna Kumar in this book, Political Agenda of Education, delves into that past and analyses, brilliantly, the development of the modern education system. The book traces the roots of the education agenda from the beginning of the colonization of India to a nationalist revival and peels
the various layers of political agendas that dictated the
legacies that still linger on.
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