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A matter of the heart: education in India

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Westland Books 2023 ChennaiDescription: xii, 375pISBN:
  • 9789395073691
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.4954 B3M2
Summary: A book on the state of education in India beyond the main cities and an ode to educators who are shaping the future of our country. Education is the possibility of building something better—a better future, a better community, a better society, a better world. But what really is education? What does it mean to build a better future? And how does one build this future—beyond the metropolitan cities and the schools for the elite? In this collection of essays, Anurag Behar takes us to schools in remote villages of India. He gives us insight into where our nation stands on education and, through that lens, into the nation itself. He shows us an India that is waiting for better infrastructure and one where the right to education is in constant struggle with the need for survival. But what emerges is the heart-warming and life-affirming story of how people and communities, energised from within, are changing lives—of individuals and the nation. This book is testimony to the essence of education: ‘The heart of the matter is that it is a matter of the heart.’ https://westlandbooks.in/
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Table of contents

Part 1. Light in August
Part 2. What is public, in public education?
Part 3. Under the banyan tree
Part 4. Our nation, in some measure
Part 5. Those who grow trees
Part 6. Iss bahakati hui duniya ko sambhalo yaaron

A book on the state of education in India beyond the main cities and an ode to educators who are shaping the future of our country.
Education is the possibility of building something better—a better future, a better community, a better society, a better world. But what really is education? What does it mean to build a better future? And how does one build this future—beyond the metropolitan cities and the schools for the elite?
In this collection of essays, Anurag Behar takes us to schools in remote villages of India. He gives us insight into where our nation stands on education and, through that lens, into the nation itself. He shows us an India that is waiting for better infrastructure and one where the right to education is in constant struggle with the need for survival. But what emerges is the heart-warming and life-affirming story of how people and communities, energised from within, are changing lives—of individuals and the nation. This book is testimony to the essence of education: ‘The heart of the matter is that it is a matter of the heart.’


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