Low-income Female Teacher Values and Agency in India

Implications for Reflective Practice

Ruth Samuel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2024
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-6097-1 (ISBN)

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This survey shows how the speech and syntax of low-income female teachers in India's education system establishes a special form of relational agency and empowerment.

Education in India concentrates on exam performance and consequently, the teacher in India often acts as disseminator of textbook material, as well as maintaining class discipline and respect. This book explores low-income female teacher's speech and syntax as a crucial resource in which agency, freedom and empowerment is enacted within a strong oral tradition in India.
It demonstrates how this socially and economically marginalised group overcome prejudices to develop relational agency and embed their authority. It shows how they establish their values and why their beliefs shape attitudes to aspiration, achievement and freedom of choice. It concludes with recommendations for policy and improvements to reflective practice in teaching.

Ruth Samuel is Academic Developer at SOAS and Research Tutor at Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life.

The need for understanding female teacher agency in India;
Social relationships as collective achievement and teacher affirmation;
Negotiating the social spaces of the female teacher;
Attitudes to authentic knowledge and transformation;
Policy recommendations.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Key Issues in Social Justice
Zusatzinfo	No
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4473-6097-4 / 1447360974
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-6097-1 / 9781447360971
Zustand	Neuware