The Social Context of Learning in India : Achievement Gaps and Factors of Poor Learning (Paperback)

Introduction 1. Understanding Classroom Learning: Psychological Tools Approach to Education 2. The Power of Collective: Responses to Systemic Disadvantage in the Educational Context 3. The Family?School Relationship 4. Enabling Environment for Learning and the Middle-Class Advantage 5. Samaj and Sangat: Parental Construction of Children's Poor Educational Attainments in a Caste-Based Segregated Settlement 6. Textbook 'Proposes', Teacher 'Disposes': Marginalising Textbooks and Teachers' Strategies of Subversion 7. Teachers' Perceptions and Attitudes towards Adivasi Students and Their Effect on Children's Classroom Engagement 8. Understanding Comprehension: Classroom Problems with English for the EWS Child 9. Unequal Access to Learning in Bihar: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives