Sociology of Education in India: Changing Contours and Emerging Concerns
Geetha B. Nambissan and Srinivasa Rao
Abstract
This volume examines the history and research on the sociology of education (SoE) in India. It analyses the influence of culture, identities, structural inequalities, and poverty on education, and evaluates how sociological tools can be used to address the impending crisis in the educational system. The consistent study of SoE has been slow in India, as is evident in the only recent attempts to establish the structure of the discipline. This volume places the SoE as a sub-discipline of Indian sociology, with the first few studies on education being undertaken in the 1950s/1960s by Kothari Comm ... More
This volume examines the history and research on the sociology of education (SoE) in India. It analyses the influence of culture, identities, structural inequalities, and poverty on education, and evaluates how sociological tools can be used to address the impending crisis in the educational system. The consistent study of SoE has been slow in India, as is evident in the only recent attempts to establish the structure of the discipline. This volume places the SoE as a sub-discipline of Indian sociology, with the first few studies on education being undertaken in the 1950s/1960s by Kothari Commission (1964-6). The book emphasizes the need to grow the sociological imagination as there is still a lack of understanding of education as a social institution and its interlinkages with poverty, cultural diversity, and the world of work. This book attempts to deal with how structural inequalities, cultural diversity, and identities of different social groups mediate institutional practices and influence learning. These are areas of research where sociologists of education in India have a critical role to play.
Keywords:
sociology of education,
education in India,
sociological imagination,
Kothari Commission,
Indian sociology,
educational crisis,
inequalities in education,
sociological imagination,
poverty and education,
disciplinary structure
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198082866 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2013 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198082866.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Geetha B. Nambissan, editor
Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Srinivasa Rao, editor
Associate Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
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