1st Edition
Power Dynamics in Education Shaping the Structure of School Education in India
Introduction: Schooling and the Power dynamics. Part I- Contextualizing Power in Schools. 1. Power and educational Policies: Rethinking NEP 2020 2. Understanding power through bricolage. Part II- Power and Identity. 3. Emotions, authority, and education. 4. Stereotyping, prejudicing, and othering. 5. Violence in education 6.Dehumanized identities and empowerment. Part III-Decolonizing Educational Psychology. 7. Marginality, aspiration and choice: An Implication for Educational Psychology. 8.Critical Pedagogy, Curriculum and Social Justice: Reflective Educational Psychology in Action.
Biography
Chetan Sinha is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat. He holds a PhD in Social Psychology of Education from ZHCES, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
“This study of power as imbedded in and as shaping the structure of school education in India is invaluable; few studies take this approach. The innate radicalism of questioning power will come as a jolt to everyone interested in Indian schooling. The author has contextualised his approach in the relevant literature and in the Indian situation and then gone on to make original connections between what we observe around us and how we should deconstruct this reality. This book fleshes out many contemporary studies of Indian school education.”
- Prof Nita Kumar, Brown Family Professor of South Asian History at Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA
