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Early childhood education, postcolonial theory, and teaching practices in India : balancing Vygotsky and the Veda
- Title
- Early childhood education, postcolonial theory, and teaching practices in India : balancing Vygotsky and the Veda / Amita Gupta.
- Author
- Gupta, Amita, 1959-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
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- Description
- xvi, 256 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Amita Gupta provides a descriptive and relatively unexamined account of the culturally complex and multidimensional relationship that exists in urban India between formal teacher education, early childhood classrooms, and the daily lived experiences of children and early childhood teachers. Full of real-life examples with several chapters devoted to the voices of teachers describing their various classroom practices, Gupta's book is a look into early childhood education in India."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Note
- Based on the author's doctoral research.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Conceptualizing and setting the stage -- 2. The sociocultural context of education : core concepts of the philosophy underlying the worldview of Indians -- 3. Educational systems in India : past and present -- 4. Aims of education contextualized within urban Indian society -- 5. Image, role, and responsibilities of the early childhood teacher in India -- 6. Image of the child : what is developmentally and socially appropriate for children growing up in Indian society? -- 7. Learning to teach : a sociocultural-historical constructivist theory of teaching -- 8. Contextualizing and demystifying the challenges of large class-size in India -- 9. A socioculturally constructed early childhood postcolonial curriculum : the interfacing of three culturally different educational discourses -- 10. Aligning teacher education and early childhood practice in urban India : balancing Vygotsky and the Veda -- 11. Reflections on the process of postcolonial research in early education.
- ISBN
- 1403971145
- LCCN
- 2005053510
- 9781403971142
- OCLC
- ocm61458370
- SCSB-5278455
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries