Madan, Amman
(2021)
Teaching history in unjust times.
Economic and Political Weekly, 56 (`8).
pp. 25-27.
ISSN 2349-8846
Abstract
Universities and the academic world
have always been part of a game
of status mobility. We may not
articulate it in that way to ourselves, but
the reason why people study something
is at least partially to increase their status,
be it in their own eyes or in the more
broadly accepted prestige system of their
immediate community. There may or
may not be something of deeper meaning in higher education, but there is always a cultural framework that gives
higher and lower ranks to different
codes embedded in it. The frameworks
may vary; some may consider learning
the language and cognitive styles of elite
Euro–American scholars the way to rise
to giddy heights, while some may consider debunking those styles to be the
path to higher self- esteem.
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