Baroque

Understanding State Behaviour through School Text Books

Jun 26, 2021 · 9 min · 21.8 MB
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How do text books, present and re-present the darker side of a nation's past? The National Curriculum Framework, provides a guideline, " A (Text Book) guide to construct understanding through active engagement with text, ideas, things, environment and people, rather than transferring knowledge as finished product."

Yet how does that guideline, translate through a process of decision-making, into text books, that present, both successes and failures. 

Further reading 

Yogendra Yadav's Recalls what it took to get a chapter on the Emergency included in political science textbooks. https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/how-emergency-entered-school-textbooks-273107