Political Agenda of Education: A Study of Colonialist and Nationalist IdeasWhen it was first published (in 1991), Political Agenda of Education was hailed as an outstanding contribution to educational theory. This thoroughly revised edition sharpens the focus and explanatory range of the original framework. In particular, the author has incorporated the complex terrain of gender and girls` education while bringing in a more nuanced discussion of caste as a factor of equality in educational opportunity. The book is divided into two parts. Part I analyzes the circumstances surrounding the establishment of a colonial system of educational administration and the implications it had for both teaching and curriculum. Part II locates educational reform within the dynamics of the three major quests of the freedom struggle: the demand for equal participation in education by the lower castes; the quest for self-identity; and the idea of progress. Krishna Kumar uses the history of ideas to develop insights which are highly relevant for the challenges facing the system of education in India and the rest of South Asia today. |
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition | 9 |
Colonial Citizen as an Educational Ideal | 25 |
Conflict | 49 |
Copyright | |
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agenda Anglicist anti-Brahman Arnold Arya Samaj aspect associated Banaras Banaras Hindu University basic education became Bengal Bharatendu Brahman British castes civil colleges colonial education colonial India colonial rule concept context cultural curriculum Devanagari discourse economic educa educated Indians education system elite English education examination expressed Gandhi Gokhale Hindi region Hindu idea ideal Indian society indigenous industrial institutions intellectual kind knowledge Lajpat Rai language leaders learning lesson liberal literary literature Maharashtra Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi major masses means ment modern moral movement Muslim nationalist Nehru nineteenth century non-Brahman pedagogical perception Persian Phule's political Premchand primary education programme Punjab pupils reform religion religious revivalist role of education Sanskrit Satyashodhak Samaj self-identity Shukla social Sri Aurobindo state's status struggle Swadeshi movement symbolic system of education Tagore Tagore's teaching textbook thought tion tradition United Provinces upper-caste Urdu village western women