During and after COVID, Digital Education has emerged as clear major, and thick, discursive field with inclusivity being a core concern. Any critique of the inequities in the field must necessarily in... Category: eSS The Sunday Edit
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 09 Jul 2022 |
In an entrepreneurial university where quantification, evaluation and interdisciplinarity are insisted upon, we need several issues sorted out before embracing the idea. Category: eSS The Sunday Edit
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 07 Mar 2022 |
It is likely that the ‘authority’ of the literary text requires a rethinking. The teacher has traditionally been invested with epistemic authority: the legitimate exercise of knowledge and expertise-a... Category: eSS The Sunday Edit
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 17 Oct 2021 |
Only someone with the clout of a world champion, the purse of one of the top-paid athletes of the world, and the influence of a millennial social media celebrity can afford to take on the antiquated a... Category: eSS The Sunday Edit
by Vidya Subramanian | On 06 Jun 2021 |
Constitutions and founding principles, including our own, were drafted by those who studied Humanities and its cognate fields, which helped them see far into the future. The plan and vision remains, a... Category: eSS The Sunday Edit
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 03 Jan 2021 |
With online education, multimodal literacy is poised for a boom. To ensure that the enhancement made possible by this form of literacy reaches more demographics, a radical rethinking of pedagogics see... Category: eSS The Sunday Edit
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 28 Dec 2020 |
People’s ability to respond to this crisis is coloured by class, caste, gender and religion and the government’s failure to respond adequately to the needs of its citizens, exposing the ugly underside... Category: eSS The Sunday Edit
by Ravi Duggal | On 25 Oct 2020 |
In the age of publicized mourning and the appropriation of death for grand and often seedy spectacles, the interest in ways of dying has found repeated sparking points. Yet we see how some deaths find... Category: eSS The Sunday Edit
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 27 Sep 2020 |
Paintings depicting the great plagues in Europe have remained cultural texts for centuries, documenting not just people’s suffering but also social attitudes, official responses and theological-eschat... Category: eSS The Sunday Edit
by Pramod K. Nayar | On 29 Aug 2020 |
Money-spinning school sports tournaments and games are about to be revived, albeit with COVID restrictions, even as sports grounds in schools are deteriorating and disappearing. The National Educatio... Category: eSS The Sunday Edit
by Padma Prakash | On 02 Aug 2020 |