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Pedagogue's Romance: Reflections on Schooling as discussed by the authors is a book on education, which illuminates the Indian Aeducational scenario and its socio-historical and political background. And, it does this with "lightness," a term used by Prof. Krishna Kumar while referring to Mahatma Gandhi.Abstract:
Pedagogue's Romance: Reflections on Schooling is a book on education, which illuminates the Indian Aeducational scenario and its socio-historical and political background. And, it does this with ‘lightness,' a term used by Prof. Krishna Kumar while referring to Mahatma Gandhi. The origin of the term is explained as being the first of the Six Memos for the Next Millennium written by Italo Calvino with reference to the values that define Literature. Lightness is not triviality but involves rising above gravity and is opposed to stodginess. This characteristic of good writing is amply demonstrated by Prof. Krishna Kumar in the twenty different essays that form the three sections of the book.read more
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