Keywords
This Keywords Compendium is a list of theoretical concepts that are central to researching the education and pedagogic sites within the Indian subcontinent. Scholars who have borrowed a concept or coined one to capture the complexities of their specific research context, or engaged with one in their teaching, have written brief encyclopaedic entries for the keywords which provide the reader a critical introduction, along with references for further reading.
In my research with non-elite mothers in India, I used the term “aspiration shaming” (Mathew, 2018) to refer to two simultaneous emergences. Unlike in...
Technical rationality manifests in multiple realms of society and human action. For example, in the realm of authority and domination, rationalisation...
This article engages with the concept of an ‘apolitical campus’ or, in other words, a campus without student politics. It provides a brief history of...
Education, although it does not facilitate the “most desirable possibility of forward movement”– salaried employment, education remains central to...
Life skills education (LSE) refers to a kind of psycho-educational intervention for children and youth that has become popular since the 1990s. While...