Draft NEP 2016

Dhankar, Rohit (2019) Draft NEP 2016. In: Elementary education in India: Policy shifts, issues and challenges. Routledge, London, pp. 91-107. ISBN 9780429328794

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Abstract

Education is, or ought to be, a critical venture which preserves and sustains a society through dynamic regeneration. It ought not to preserve a society with its entrenched inequalitarian and oppressive power structure; it rather should continuously re-create it in a more and more egalitarian form. From this perspective, education should help develop critical citizens who sustain a society through their economic and cultural contribution, as well as have a responsibility to offer constructive criticism to counter its ills. This chapter argues that historically education policy documents in India emphasize both these functions. However, whatever policy-related documents are coming from the government seem to be heavily tilting towards the citizen as a resource, reducing the idea of a democratic citizen to a subject of the state. One strategy to effect this tilt that is being used in the recent state initiatives is a surreptitious re-definition of knowledge, which this chapter examines.

Item Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Dhankar, Rohit
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID Raina, Jyoti UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences > Political Science Social sciences > Education Social sciences > Education > Public policy issues in education
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Education
Full Text Status:	None
Related URLs:	Library OPAC
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/7179
Publisher URL:	https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.432...

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