1st Edition
The Nation's Got Talent Education, Experimentation and Policy Discourses in India
1. The National Talent Search Examination: A History of Evolving Aspirations
2. ‘National Science Talent’: Historicizing an articulation
3. In search of ‘talent’: Constructions in Indian education policy
4. The ‘science’ in the search: The legacy of a brief experiment
5. The ‘nation’ in the search: A social geography of talent identification
6. The ‘scholar’ in the search: Memories of the talent search
7. The scholar and the nation: The worldview of the ‘talented’
8. Seeking Talent, Finding the Nation
Biography
Rachel Philip is an Assistant Professor in the School of Liberal Arts, IIT Jodhpur. Her work explores the social imagination, construction, and application of discourses like ‘talent’, ‘equality’, ‘quality’, ‘interest’, etc. through the critical documentation of education interventions. With an interdisciplinary background in English Literature, Sociology, and Education, Dr Philip has previously worked with the ICICI Foundation, Pune, and taught at the Departments of Sociology of the Lady Shri Ram College for Women (LSR) and the Indraprastha College for Women (IPCW), University of Delhi. She has also undertaken fieldwork and implemented a pre-school reading program in Innopolis, Russia.
