Critical Mind and Labouring Body: Caste and Education Reforms in Kerala
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Title
Critical Mind and Labouring Body: Caste and Education Reforms in Kerala
Subject
Critical Mind
Labouring Body
Caste
Education
Education Reforms
Education Reforms in Kerala
Description
Exploring the various educational reform programs implemented in primary schools and high schools in Keralam in India in the last two decades, this paper seeks to analyze the dichotomous concepts of mental and manual labour, theoretical and practical knowledge, and general and technical education which constituted the premise of these reform interventions. The paper attempts to understand the role of different conceptualizations of language and experience in reproducing the above dichotomies. Tracing the genealogy of the dichotomies in the colonial period, the paper argues that even in the educational reform programs which consciously challenge the colonial models, one can find the continuing separation of mental and manual labour in variety of forms and modes. This leads to the question (though not answered in this paper) whether the very concept of knowledge itself, deployed in the educational practice in India, is ordered through the prism of hierarchical practices of caste.
Creator
Sunandan, K N
Source
Artha Journal of Social Sciences; Vol. 15 No. 2 (2016): Artha Journal of Social Sciences; 27-47
0000-0000
0975-329X
Publisher
Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore
Date
2016-04-01
Rights
Copyright (c) 2016 Artha - Journal of Social Sciences
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Relation
Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
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Citation
K Sunandan N, Critical Mind and Labouring Body: Caste and Education Reforms in Kerala, Centre for Publications, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, 2016, accessed November 7, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/169