Ethnographies of Schooling in Contemporary India - Thapan, Meenakshi (SAGE Publications, 2014)
About the Editor and ContributorsIndex
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 -- Negotiating Schooland Gender: Peer Performatives; 2 -- Schooling and the Production of Student Culture: Principles and Practice; 3 -- Kiranjyoti Vidyalaya: A Sociological Narrative of a Government School; 4 -- Schooling, Identity and Citizenship Education; 5 -- In Quest of Identity: Student Culture in a Religious Minority Institution; 6 -- Being Muslims, Becoming Citizens: A Muslim Girls' School in Post-riot Ahmedabad; 7 -- Living in the Bubble: Rishi Valley School and the Sense of Community; 8 -- School Experience: An Autobiographical Approach
The influence of popular culture, media and aggressive marketing of consumer goods all enter the school arena to compete with the more formal aspects of being at school and contribute to the creation of a unique school culture. It is essential to unpack and unravel the rich and engaged world of student culture as it is constructed in school life. Ethnographies of Schooling in Contemporary India attempts to understand meaning and mean
Includes bibliographical references and index