Leonard, Dickens
A symphonic zone? Questions of language, education, and caste
- Economic & Political Weekly
- 60(13). Mar 29, 2025: p.12-15
In the context of the ongoing debates on the language and education policies of the nation state, and the political crisis that the union and state governments precariously face in its implementation, this article is an invitation to critically rethink the promise of radical equality and the question of experiential community through schooling in the context of a warring world. Questions of language, education, and caste are discussed through the ideas of contact and anti-contact zones, engaged multiplicity, and a proposal to consider schooling as a zone of symphony in a mobile world that is ready to face the sound of a trigger.- Reproduced
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