Pedagogical Reform in Indian School Education: Examining the Child-Centred Approach

Autor/in	Mili
Titel	Pedagogical Reform in Indian School Education: Examining the Child-Centred Approach
Quelle	In: Journal of Philosophy of Education, 52 (2018) 3, S.533-547 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8249
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Student Centered Learning; Teaching Methods; Teacher Role; Adoption (Ideas); Educational Change; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Group work; Student-entered learning; Student-centred learning; Student centred learning; Schülerorientierter Unterricht; Schülerzentrierter Unterricht; Gruppenarbeit; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrerrolle; Ideas; Ideenfindung; Bildungsreform; Indien
Abstract	In this paper I analyse how critical Indian policy texts engage with and argue for child-centred approaches to education. Summarising the context in which these texts were written, and drawing on philosophical debates surrounding child-centred education, I examine what the current emphasis on these ideas implies for classroom practice and the role of teachers. I explain why long-standing debates on the philosophical underpinnings of child-centred education should be brought to bear on the manner in which policy texts employ these ideas, even though child-centred ideas do represent a significant departure from traditional practice. These discussions help make explicit the limitations of the manner in which child-centred ideas are adopted in the texts, troubling their unproblematic acceptance of the child-centred vision. The absence of such discussion risks foreclosing substantial discourses on the role of teachers, and in particular, teachers' autonomy and the relationship between knowledge and action in the context of teaching. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01