This book explores the structures of power and politics within a government-aided school situated in a Muslim-majority area in Delhi, India. This book will be of interest to students of education, sociology, development studies, political science and social work.
This book explores the structures of power and politics within a government-aided school situated in a Muslim-majority area in Delhi, India. This book will be of interest to students of education, sociology, development studies, political science and social work.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Farah Farooqi is Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education at Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, India. Previously, she worked for eight years at the Department of Elementary Education, Lady Sri Ram College, University of Delhi. Her research interests include education, school and community ethnographies, issues of identity, marginalization, ghettoization, and cultural politics.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I
School organisation and leadership
1 An introduction to the School
2 The many facets of power
PART II
The children's context
3 Children of labourers, working children, and vicissitudes of the market
PART III
Children, children's groups, and teachers' perceptions
4 Different groups of children
5 Religious education
6 Maintenance of boundaries
PART IV
School functioning and changes
7 The School Gender Committee and its many paradoxes
8 Disciplining the children
9 The ordinary school calendar begets significant changes