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Education and Public Sphere Exploring the Structures of Mediation in Post-Colonial India

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Education and Public Sphere Exploring the Structures of Mediation in Post-Colonial India
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<strong>Centre for Advanced Studies Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University</strong> NATIONAL SEMINAR ON <strong>Education and Public Sphere Exploring the Structures of Mediation in Post-Colonial India</strong> <strong>17-18 March 2016</strong> <strong>Concept note : </strong>At a time when the state and its ideological apparatuses began to void the autonomous spaces for intellectual engagement, the institutions of learning embedded in the practices of public reason and critical thinking seem to be in a state of crisis. There are hidden operations of mediated structures inflicting upon the public sphere which tends to reproduce the similar kinds of systems in the educational field as well. The proposed seminar seeks to gather intellectual responses to debate on the contemporary process of education in India by specifically examining the structures of mediations that engage to expand/construe the conceptual spaces available in the public sphere in our times. The objective of the seminar is to explore the operations of the mediating structures and the super-structures that shape education and public sphere to realize a society based on the normative principles of equality and democracy. The discourses and their practices centered on disciplinary regimes in the domain of education not only inspire to adapt the desirable structures of mediations to reflect upon emancipatory interest but also expose and negate the hidden operations of discursive powers to bring about the prevalence of social justice. An enquiry of this kind can possibly begin by examining the generic aspects of educational regime, its effects and expansion - with the active interplay of historically mediating structures of disciplines, cultures, power, and economy - as key constituencies of the public sphere. Tentative themes to initiate seminar debates are as follows: 1. Matrix of Education network: Regimes of Knowledge, Governance and Politics 2. Mobility pattern of agencies in academics: Students, Teachers and Researchers 3. Education and Language of Justice: Beyond the frames on Access and Inclusion 4. Alternative Pedagogy: Reflexive process and critical engagement in education 5. Border lines on the Public and the Private: Negotiations in education as public good 6. Mediations in education: The communities, the state and the market 7. Epistemic violence, dissenting voices and protest knowledge