Indian Child and Childhood:
From the Eyes of Teachers

Rachita Bisht

Abstract: India is today part of the global debate on childhood and a radical ‘child-centered pedagogy’ has been presented to educators by NCF 2005. This qualitative study explores an indigenous, teachers’ discourse on children in India, in terms of firstly, developmental beliefs and related trait(s) and secondly, using Mayall’s Sociology of Childhood, childhood’s perception as a social group. Qualitative analysis of data obtained using clinical interviews and story-narratives revealed that, in terms of a developmental understanding, teachers paradoxically saw children as actively constructing knowledge from their environment, while being passively determined through unidirectional socialization and automatic/subconscious observational learning from their environment. As a social group, teachers gave childhood a subordinate status through processes of control, obedience and dependence. An ideology......

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Title: Indian Child And Childhood: From The Eyes Of The Teacher
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