Pedagogy and Prescribed Capabilities

This book questions the validity and reliability of conventional measures of quality education, like enrolment ratio, retention rates, pupil-teacher ratio and availability of infrastructure, henceforth demanding its re-calibration. It will be useful to students and teachers working in Education, Psychology, Development Studies and Sociology.

Auteur

Charusheel Tripathi is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at UPES, Dehradun. She has a bachelor's in Political Science from Lady Sri Ram College for Women in Delhi University and has received her doctorate from Centre for Political Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, for her work on social justice and education policy. Her newfound love for problems associated with quality of school education and teaching-cum-learning, has propelled her to bridge studies on educational programmes and processes with politics. However, her research interests also entail domains like comparative politics, political philosophy, public policy and governance. Lately, she has pledged to monomaniacally work on 'quality' concerns ailing education.