Education at the Crossroads

 

Edited by Apoorvanand and Omita Goyal

 

 

 

Dr. Karan Singh, MP will release the special issue of the IIC Quarterly (Winter 2015-Spring 2016)

 

 

 

Followed by a panel discussion

 

Panelists: Prof. Krishna Kumar, Professor of Education and former Director, NCERT; Prof. Shyam B. Menon, Vice-Chancellor, Ambedkar University, Delhi; and Prof. Anita Rampal, Faculty of Education, University of Delhi

 

 

 

This volume asks a fundamental question: What is education? It is not only about literacy and grades and rankings, nor merely about knowledge creation. A common theme that runs through the collection is the recognition that education has to teach us to think and question. If this is the imperative, education must take cognizance of disparities in incomes and social status, the heterogeneity of culture, religion, language and lived reality

 

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