School worlds : an ethnographic study
By: Sharma, Anuradha.
Contributor(s): Thapan, Meenakshi (Ed).
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BookSeries: Sociology and Social Anthropology of Education in South Asia. Publisher: New Delhi Sage Publications 2016Description: xxxii, 216p.; 9x6 hb.ISBN: 9789351509189.Subject(s): Children with social disabilities -- Education -- India -- Delhi -- Case studies | Privatization in education -- India -- Delhi -- Case studies | Educational equalization -- India -- Delhi -- Case studiesDDC classification: 371.82694 Summary: An in-depth analysis of how social constituents of identity influence and are influenced by the processes of a specific social site—a school.
School Worlds addresses debates on:
• The role that a school plays in the construction of gender, social class and religious attitudes of its students
• The kind of interactions that take place in school settings due to the varied perceptions of these social identities
• The influence of peer relations and the manner in which gender differences are constituted, re-structured and sometimes overcome
The book focuses on the experiences of schooling through an ethnographic study of everyday life in a secondary school. It assesses classroom interactions amongst teachers and pupils as well as the non-classroom situations within the school space, highlighting the diversity in such spaces that help generate notions of identity.
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An in-depth analysis of how social constituents of identity influence and are influenced by the processes of a specific social site—a school.
School Worlds addresses debates on:
• The role that a school plays in the construction of gender, social class and religious attitudes of its students
• The kind of interactions that take place in school settings due to the varied perceptions of these social identities
• The influence of peer relations and the manner in which gender differences are constituted, re-structured and sometimes overcome
The book focuses on the experiences of schooling through an ethnographic study of everyday life in a secondary school. It assesses classroom interactions amongst teachers and pupils as well as the non-classroom situations within the school space, highlighting the diversity in such spaces that help generate notions of identity.
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