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The Smart and the Dumb
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5074003The Smart and the Dumbhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-smart-and-the-dumb-9789357089807/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4614179/image.jpg?v=63856998186570000093103MXNPenguin Random House India Private LimitedInStock/Ebooks/<p><em>When racial and sexual injustice have been reduced, we shall still be left with the grave injustice of the smart and the dumb</em>Thomas Nagel</p><p>Education achieves many thingsit pulls people out of poverty, enables socio-economic mobility and promises a route to dignity. But what does education mean to different people, what does it do and whose needs are being met by education?</p><p>Even as globalization and formal education have established themselves as unquestionable truths, only a privileged few have cornered its benefits. In this process, education is being reconceived and its promises are being rewritten. Today, there clearly is more to education than going to school, getting credentials and getting a job.</p><p>This book is an attempt to capture what this more is, by exploring educations connections to caste, class and gender and understanding how they affect the promise of education. In documenting the fractured realities of the many children who want guns for Christmas and the psychological trauma of conflict in Manipur, how a ban on toddy-tapping affects educational choices in Tamil Nadu or why a grandmother chose to get her fifteen-year-old granddaughter married to a seventeen-year-old truck driver in rural Rajasthan and many such stories, this book attempts to paint a portrait of the political and cultural processes that affect education.</p>...4800352The Smart and the Dumb93103https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-smart-and-the-dumb-9789357089807/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4614179/image.jpg?v=638569981865700000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249789357089807_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9789357089807_<p><em>When racial and sexual injustice have been reduced, we shall still be left with the grave injustice of the smart and the dumb</em>Thomas Nagel</p><p>Education achieves many thingsit pulls people out of poverty, enables socio-economic mobility and promises a route to dignity. But what does education mean to different people, what does it do and whose needs are being met by education?</p><p>Even as globalization and formal education have established themselves as unquestionable truths, only a privileged few have cornered its benefits. In this process, education is being reconceived and its promises are being rewritten. Today, there clearly is more to education than going to school, getting credentials and getting a job.</p><p>This book is an attempt to capture what this more is, by exploring educations connections to caste, class and gender and understanding how they affect the promise of education. In documenting the fractured realities of the many children who want guns for Christmas and the psychological trauma of conflict in Manipur, how a ban on toddy-tapping affects educational choices in Tamil Nadu or why a grandmother chose to get her fifteen-year-old granddaughter married to a seventeen-year-old truck driver in rural Rajasthan and many such stories, this book attempts to paint a portrait of the political and cultural processes that affect education.</p>...9789357089807_Penguin Random House India Private Limitedlibro_electonico_9789357089807_9789357089807Vishal VasanthakumarInglésMéxico2024-07-22T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/randomhouseindia-epub-2dd95ef4-13d1-432b-9f33-94fd19ad937b.epub2024-07-22T00:00:00+00:00Penguin Random House India Private Limited