Pooja Bhalla

Textbook Culture

Pedagogy and Classroom Processes. Sprachen: Englisch. 23,4 cm / 15,6 cm / 1,0 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9781032772905
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172 Seiten
August 2025
Routledge India

This volume captures the essence of schooling in a structural manner and explores the classroom life in the larger schooling context. The emphasis is to uncover the necessary framework of classroom that is significant to understand the place of textbooks in the Indian school education system.

Pooja Bhalla is a teacher in a school in Delhi. She has a Doctorate in Sociology from Delhi University. She is a recipient of University Grants Commission's Junior and later Senior, Research Fellowship. Her research interests are sociology of education, educational policy, curriculum and pedagogy, post-colonial frameworks of schooling and ethnographic studies, qualitative studies in education.

Introduction 1. Curriculum and Textbooks 2. The Vidyalaya at a Glance 3. Pedagogic Practices: Unveiling the Textbook Culture 4. The Dynamics of Learning: A Sociological Perspective 5. "Pedagogical Discards" in The Classroom: Creation of an "Extreme" Identity 6. Cheating: A Pedagogical Device. Conclusion.