"The Debate over Quality in Education" lecture by Prof. Krishna Kumar at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 25th April 2012
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture on 'The Debate over Quality in Education' by Prof. Krishna Kumar, Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi and Former Director, NCERT, New Delhi
Abstract : As a concept, quality presents significant difficulties when it is applied to education. At the same time, the temptation to use it is strong and valid. It is important to explore this ambivalence in order to map the larger contemporary discourse of which the term 'quality' is a major component. Its meaning has evolved rather rapidly over the recent decades, from being a counterpoint to 'quantity' in the 1970s into providing a ground for questioning the role and function of the state in education. Its application across the different stages of education also shows subtle variation, pointing to the specific political economies of school, vocational and higher education. The debates surrounding 'quality' in education need to be relocated in the core of the educational process, namely, the learner's experience, and this relocation requires to be adjusted to the implications of social stratification and the opportunity structure. As key players in the life of institutions, the student and the teacher offer useful points for reflection on quality in the contemporary history of education in India. Especially worthy of attention is the question whether equality is an aspect of quality.
Speaker : Professor Krishna Kumar teaches at the Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi. He was Director of NCERT from 2004 to 2010. Professor Kumar was a Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, and the Centre for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania. He has delivered several memorial lectures, including the Gladwyn lecture in the House of Lords.In 2011 he was awarded an Honorary D.Litt. in Education by the Institute of Education, University of London. He is a recipient of Padma Shree. He writes both in Hindi and English. Some of his books are Raj, Samaj aur Shiksha, What is Worth Teaching, Political Agenda of Education, Vichaar ka Dar, Learning from Conflict, Shiksha aur Gyan, The Child's Language and the Teacher and A Pedagogue's Romance. Over the recent years he has been teaching a course on Peace Education, an interest he developed during his work as a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow on a comparative study of history textbooks used in the schools of India and Pakistan. This work has been published under the title, Prejudice and Pride. A sequel to this work, his Battle for Peace, explores the psychological roots of Indo-Pak hostility. He is a Hindi short story writer and columnist, and also writes for children. He is currently engaged in a study of girlhood.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Public Lecture on 'The Debate over Quality in Education' by Prof. Krishna Kumar, Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi and Former Director, NCERT, New Delhi
Abstract : As a concept, quality presents significant difficulties when it is applied to education. At the same time, the temptation to use it is strong and valid. It is important to explore this ambivalence in order to map the larger contemporary discourse of which the term 'quality' is a major component. Its meaning has evolved rather rapidly over the recent decades, from being a counterpoint to 'quantity' in the 1970s into providing a ground for questioning the role and function of the state in education. Its application across the different stages of education also shows subtle variation, pointing to the specific political economies of school, vocational and higher education. The debates surrounding 'quality' in education need to be relocated in the core of the educational process, namely, the learner's experience, and this relocation requires to be adjusted to the implications of social stratification and the opportunity structure. As key players in the life of institutions, the student and the teacher offer useful points for reflection on quality in the contemporary history of education in India. Especially worthy of attention is the question whether equality is an aspect of quality.
Speaker : Professor Krishna Kumar teaches at the Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi. He was Director of NCERT from 2004 to 2010. Professor Kumar was a Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, and the Centre for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania. He has delivered several memorial lectures, including the Gladwyn lecture in the House of Lords.In 2011 he was awarded an Honorary D.Litt. in Education by the Institute of Education, University of London. He is a recipient of Padma Shree. He writes both in Hindi and English. Some of his books are Raj, Samaj aur Shiksha, What is Worth Teaching, Political Agenda of Education, Vichaar ka Dar, Learning from Conflict, Shiksha aur Gyan, The Child's Language and the Teacher and A Pedagogue's Romance. Over the recent years he has been teaching a course on Peace Education, an interest he developed during his work as a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow on a comparative study of history textbooks used in the schools of India and Pakistan. This work has been published under the title, Prejudice and Pride. A sequel to this work, his Battle for Peace, explores the psychological roots of Indo-Pak hostility. He is a Hindi short story writer and columnist, and also writes for children. He is currently engaged in a study of girlhood.
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"The Debate over Quality in Education" lecture by Prof. Krishna Kumar at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 25th April 2012
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