Ten Lectures on Education

This book reveals the intensity of classroom lectures. It invites the readers to raise critical questions, sharpen their socio-political vision, and reflect on educational practices and pedagogic possibilities. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in South Asia.

Avijit Pathak is Professor at Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

1. Education and Enlightenment 2. Beyond the Parameters of a Schooled Society 3. Seeing Through the Sociological Lens 4. Contextualizing the Educational Debates 5. Science, Secularization and Education 6. Euphoria of Success, Stigma of Failure 7. Ideology, Curriculum and Educational Dilemmas 8. Skill Learning and Liberal Education: Overcoming the False Duality 9. A Society That Has Lost its Teachers is Dead 10. In Search of Feasible Utopias