Comparative Education in South Asia: Contribution, Contestation, and Possibilities

Batra, Poonam

doi:10.1108/s1479-367920190000036011

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“…With an undue focus on instrumental aims of education, such as developing skills and competencies, “knowledge” itself is being repositioned, even marginalized. Policy transfer, constructed in decontextualized abstraction, then rationalized by a target-driven universal agenda, has disrupted diverse post-colonial processes of generating decolonized and subaltern knowledges (Batra 2019b ). It determines what kind of knowledges are disseminated and which are suppressed, which knowledge has a premium and why, and how the power of reason is undermined in preference for popular identities and desires.…”

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Re-imagining curriculum in India: Charting a path beyond the pandemic

Batra

2020

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The Covid-19 pandemic has made visible the sharp economic, health, caste-based, gender, and educational inequalities that the disadvantaged face in India. Curriculum is ordinarily viewed as a tool for regulating and adapting modern educational systems to society’s needs and trends. But most governments have been unwilling to rethink post-pandemic education, despite the loss of livelihoods, food, and shelter – accentuated by educational inequality and institutionalised via neoliberal reforms. The current pandemic compels us to examine the meanings and purposes of education from a socio-historical perspective, to understand how questions of equity and justice, rooted in India’s Constitution, can be woven into curricula and pedagogic approaches. This article reflects on the role that curriculum can play in enabling an ecologically and socially just and connected world. This curricular response includes cognising the significance of subaltern disciplines and imagining transformative pedagogies that can help reclaim education spaces and sustain epistemic justice.

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Section: Using the Pandemic To Institute New Forms Of Exclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%