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Author Thapan, Meenakshi

Title Life at school : an ethnographic study / Meenakshi Thapan
Edition 2nd ed
Published New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 271 pages) : map
Series Oxford India paperbacks
Oxford India paperbacks
Contents Ideology and education : Krishnamurti's world-view and educational thought -- School organization : the transcendental and the local orders -- School culture : rituals and ceremonies -- Teacher culture : professional and ideologue teachers -- Teacher interaction : formal and informal -- Pupil culture : an ensemble of relations -- Teacher-pupil interaction : freedom and constraint
Summary This volume explores the complex relationship between ideas, institutions and the people in them, by examining the case of the Rishi Valley School, which is informed by the world-view of the renowned philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti
Notes Previous edition: 1991
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Krishnamurti, J. (Jiddu), 1895-1986.
SUBJECT Krishnamurti, J. (Jiddu), 1895-1986. fast (OCoLC)fst00038512
Subject Rishi Valley School (India)
SUBJECT Rishi Valley School (India) fast (OCoLC)fst00672781
Subject Educational anthropology -- India -- Andhra Pradesh
Teacher-student relationships -- India -- Andhra Pradesh
High schools -- India -- Andhra Pradesh -- Sociological aspects
Educational anthropology.
High schools -- Sociological aspects.
Teacher-student relationships.
Education.
Social Sciences.
Theory & Practice of Education.
India -- Andhra Pradesh.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199081837
0199081832
0195679644
9780195679649