Child-centred education and the promise of democratic learning: Pedagogic messages in rural Indian primary schools

Arathi Sriprakash

International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 30, No. 3 (May 2010) pp. 297–304

Global and national agendas to achieve universal primary education and improve the ‘quality’ of school provision in developing countries have identified the need to reform classroom pedagogy. Since the 1990s, child-centred ideas in particular have...

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The Possibility of Cosmopolitan Learning: Reflecting on Future Directions for Diversity Teacher Education in Australia

Carol Reid; Arathi Sriprakash

Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 40, No. 1 (2012) pp. 15–29

This paper is situated in the re-visioning ethos that has been part of the genealogy of multicultural education. In the context of teacher education, the authors ask: where to now? In this paper, they reflect on their design and delivery of a new...