Inclusive Pedagogies: Teaching & Learning Practices in Higher Education in India

Contents: Introduction. 1. The Impossibility of Dalit Studies. 2. Unequal Schooling and the Challenges for Higher Education in India. 3. Critical Thinking and Academic Writing (in English): A Look at Ashoka University’s Academic Bridge Programme. 4. Inclusion, Diversity and Writing: Centre for Writing and Communication at Ashoka University. 5. The Classroom as the ‘Field’: Consolidating Writing Pedagogy Through Ethnographic Documentation. 6. Rethinking Higher Education Practice Within Academic Audit Regimes. 7. The ‘Dangerous Ground’ for Democracy: Doing Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in the Public University. Inclusive Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning Practices in Higher Education in India, emerges from the work of the Centre for Writing and Communication at Ashoka University, Sonepat. It addresses some of the most fundamental issues facing higher education in India, namely, of pedagogy and inclusion. The essays in this volume offer a range of perspectives ranging from an ideological vision for inclusive pedagogy, critically analysing policy and disciplinary discourses, to individual experiments in syllabi-making and classroom interaction. The contributors to this book are scholars trained in a variety of disciplines, sharing their experiences of engaging with the idea of ‘inclusion’ as teachers, scholars and administrators in young and emerging universities.