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Conflict between covers: Confronting official curriculum in Indian textbooks

Esa Syeed
- 28 Dec 2018 - 
- Vol. 48, Iss: 5, pp 540-559
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The authors examines the most recent national-level textbook writing process in India during which activists, academics, and government bureaucrats came together to produce texts guided by the authors' beliefs and beliefs.
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The article examines the most recent national-level textbook writing process in India during which activists, academics, and government bureaucrats came together to produce texts guided by ...

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The challenge of measuring children’s attitudes toward wildlife in rural India

Gabby Salazar, +5 more
- 15 Mar 2021 - 
TL;DR: People's attitudes influence the nature of their interactions with wildlife and support for conservation as discussed by the authors, and many environmental education programs seek to influence children's attitudes to conserve wildlife and to support conservation.
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Knowledge and Curriculum Landscapes in South Asia: An Introduction

Naureen Durrani, +1 more
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Curriculum, more than a journey on a map

Shashank Kumar
- 01 Jan 2022 - 
TL;DR: In the contemporary world, systems and processes of state-sponsored and state-recognized mass education (henceforth, formal education) are based on ideas that liken curriculum to maps as mentioned in this paper , and one role of curriculum in formal education is to prescribe how large numbers of people might be oriented to regard and live in the world in ways that sustain the sovereignty, prosperity and influence of the nation-states that govern their lives.
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Exploring modes of engagement within reform-oriented primary mathematics textbooks in India

Meghna Nag Chowdhuri
- 19 Jan 2022 - 
TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyze the Math-Magic textbooks associated with the Indian National Curriculum Framework and investigate how these textbooks represent and communicate the framework ideas, focusing on key curricular elements and on the teacher as reader.
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