Smart and the Dumb : the Politics of Education in India (Record no. 231808)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780670098637
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
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Edition number 23
Classification number 370
Item number VASS
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Personal name Vishal Vasanthakumar
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9 (RLIN) 179163
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Title Smart and the Dumb : the Politics of Education in India
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Haryana
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2024
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 179 p.
Other physical details HB
Dimensions 21x14 cm.
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Price type code 3641
Price amount ₹479.00
Currency code ₹
Unit of pricing ₹599.00
Price note 20%
Price effective from 05-09-2024
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Summary, etc. ‘When racial and sexual injustice have been reduced, we shall still be left with the grave injustice of the smart and the dumb’—Thomas Nagel<br/><br/>Education achieves many things—it pulls people out of poverty, enables socio-economic mobility and promises a route to dignity. But what does education mean to different people, what does it do and whose needs are being met by education?<br/>Even as globalization and formal education have established themselves as unquestionable truths, only a privileged few have cornered its benefits. In this process, education is being reconceived and its promises are being rewritten. Today, there clearly is more to education than going to school, getting credentials and getting a job.<br/>This book is an attempt to capture what this ‘more’ is, by exploring education’s connections to caste, class and gender and understanding how they affect the promise of education. In documenting the fractured realities of the many children who want guns for Christmas and the psychological trauma of conflict in Manipur, how a ban on toddy-tapping affects educational choices in Tamil Nadu or why a grandmother chose to get her fifteen-year-old granddaughter married to a seventeen-year-old truck driver in rural Rajasthan and many such stories, this book attempts to paint a portrait of the political and cultural processes that affect education.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Non-fiction
9 (RLIN) 179164
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Education
9 (RLIN) 179165
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Personal name VASANTHAKUMAR (Vishal)
9 (RLIN) 179166
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Psychology St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 09/13/2024 Biblios Book Point Surathkal Mangalore 575014 479.00 1 370 VASS 077328 01/13/2025 01/04/2025 599.00 09/17/2024 Book