IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijicbm/v15y2017i1p100-120.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Elementary education in Bharat (that is India): insights from a postcolonial ethnographic study of a Gurukul

Author

Listed:
  • Ankur Joshi
  • Rajen K. Gupta

Abstract

The education delivered in Bharat1 grapples with the issues of quality in terms of its content, pedagogy and the outcomes. The colonisation of education system subsequently led to the demise of traditional institutions (like Gurukul) of education delivery. Afterwards with the political independence, the government neither could work for the decolonisation of the education nor could it make significant efforts to revive or learn from the Gurukul system. However, a significant number of Gurukuls are still running in the country. This paper takes a post-colonial stance to the education and presents an ethnographic account of one such Gurukul. The propositions are presented based on this account for improvement in the quality of elementary education.

Suggested Citation

  • Ankur Joshi & Rajen K. Gupta, 2017. "Elementary education in Bharat (that is India): insights from a postcolonial ethnographic study of a Gurukul," International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 15(1), pages 100-120.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijicbm:v:15:y:2017:i:1:p:100-120
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=85390
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijicbm:v:15:y:2017:i:1:p:100-120. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=235 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.