Education and the public sphere: exploring the structures of mediation in post-colonial India/ edited by Suresh Babu G.S.

Includes bibliographical references.

Towards a destruction of critical thinking / Prabhat Patnaik -- The crisis of India's higher education / Zoya Hasan -- Education as emancipation : reading freedom through Dalit narratives / Raj Kumar -- Between prohibition of political activity and capture of political space : the predicament of student politics in Kerala / Praveena Kodoth -- Public and the private dichotomy : an enquiry into the university agency and structure / Chetan Singai -- Publication or public action? : discursive spaces of disengagements in India / L N Venkataraman -- Parental choice for schools in the changing context of the state and market in India / Pradeep Kumar Choudhury -- Privatization and shrinking free space in Indian higher education : challenges for inclusive knowledge society / Narender Thakur & Gaurav J. Pathania -- Public sphere and educational policy transformations in Kerala / Ahammedul Kabeer AP -- Can social movements lead to educational change? : some reflections on case study of the Adivasi Munnetra Sangam / Amman Madan, Rama Sastry and B. Ramdas -- Everyday violence, schooling and mediating institutions in Northeast India / Jeebanlata Salam -- Pedagogic settings and pedagogic deterrence : a treatise on tribal education and social exclusion / Babu C.T Sunil -- Silent public and speaking selves : locating 'public sphere' through classroom practices / Pranta Pratik Patnaik -- Everyday engagement with social issues : prospects of liberal arts and engineering students in the institutions of higher learning / Sarvendra Yadav -- Researcher, field and caste encounter : critical reflections on the field work / Ajay Choudhary -- Education, self and society : a contemporary reading of (Integrated) 'science of the absolute' in the philosophy of Narayana Guru and Nataraja Guru / Shareena Banu C.P -- Conclusion : education and public Sphere : conceptions and their mediations / Suresh Babu G.S.