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Introduction: Pedagogy and Development
This book analyses how, since the 1990s, child-centred ideas have been used in international development discourses on education, promising more democratic and egalitarian schooling. This first chapter discuss...
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Child-Centred Pedagogies and the Promise of Democratic Schooling
This chapter draws together the main threads of the book’s analysis to open up a space for rethinking the politics of educational development reform. It suggests that Bernstein’s notion of recontextualisation ...
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The Political Project of Child-Centred Education in India
This chapter analyses how primary school pedagogy has been differently conceptualised in policy arenas in India. The pedagogic legacy of colonial education is discussed with relation to early challenges to did...
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On Being a Teacher: Work Stories in Contexts of Change
This chapter sets out to illuminate the ways in which child-centred reforms have repositioned teachers’ work in India. It examines what it means to be a teacher in rural Karnataka through teachers’ accounts of...
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Principles of Instruction
This chapter takes up Bernstein’s theories of instruction to analyse the instructional principles sha** teachers’ pedagogic discourses, such as the selection, sequence, pacing and evaluation of school knowle...
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Learner-Centred Teaching at Kamala Primary School
This chapter focuses on the practice of the Learner-Centred (LC) child-centred model in a standard 2 classroom at Kamala Higher Primary School. The discussions seek to illuminate the school and community conte...
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Researching Pedagogic Reform
This chapter describes how a sociological research approach was used to gain insights into the processes and effects of education development programs in India. Basil Bernstein’s sociological theory of pedagog...
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Education Reform in Karnataka: Two Pedagogies for Development
This chapter discusses the Karnataka state contexts of education policy and reform with relation to teachers’ role in narratives of rural development. Two case studies of child-centred pedagogic reforms implem...
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Educating the Rural Child
This chapter examines the ways in which education for rural students has been understood by teachers in India, especially in light of the new expectations of students emphasised in child-centred reforms. Nali Kal...
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Nali Kali at Mallige Primary School
This chapter focuses on the practice of the Nali Kali child-centred model in a standard 2 classroom at Mallige Higher Primary School. The discussions seek to illuminate the school and community contexts and the i...