Shashikala Srinivasan

Gebundenes Buch

Liberal Education and Its Discontents

The Crisis in the Indian University

Beschreibung

This book explores these vital questions and traces the intellectual history of the idea of education and the cluster of concepts associated with it. It probes into the cultural roots of liberal education and seeks to understand its effects and limits when transplanted into the Indian context.

Autor

Shashikala Srinivasan is an independent scholar based in Bengaluru, India. A Fulbright-Nehru Scholar (2012-13), she has a doctorate in Cultural Studies from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, affiliated to Manipal University, Karnataka, India. Her work cuts across philosophy of education and culture, social epistemology, postcolonial studies and literature. She has offered courses in liberal arts as a visiting faculty in Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru and has previously taught as a senior faculty member in the English Department, Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru. She is at present further exploring the comparative intellectual history of learning traditions, the relationship between cultures and forms of knowledge as well as the differing conceptions of education, ethical learning and reflection in Europe and India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 465g
• ISBN-13: 9781138213593
• ISBN-10: 1138213594
• Artikelnr.: 53688157