Texas Republicans take aim at climate change — in textbooks
The scorching summer in Texas this year was the second hottest on record — but students in the southwestern US state might have a hard time understanding why. That’s because…
Textbooks of ‘respectability’
Who we are as individuals depends in large measure on the combined effects of many contributing factors. Our educational experiences, cultural and social influences of family and friends, books read,…
Textbooks for whom?
When development of the Single National Curriculum (SNC) began with the express objective of “erasing class differences”, observers who pointed to the pitfalls of using education in yet another attempt…
Bias in textbooks
GENDER bias in textbooks is an important but overlooked problem. Content analyses of textbooks have shown that women occupy a subordinate status in society; their roles are insignificant and mostly…
Journalism and textbooks: Part – II
The tragedy of textbooks by Dr A S Khurshid and Miskeen Hijazi is that you do get to read something about the history of journalism and that too mostly pre-Partition,…
Promoting anti-science via textbooks
A biology textbook is normally expected to teach biology as science, meaning a scientifically based study of the structure, growth and origin of living things. But what if such a…
Alternative textbooks
EDUCATION can play an important role in controlling as well as emancipating groups of individuals. Realising its significance a number of imperialist forces used education as a tool to impose…
The venture of pristine textbooks on the discipline of mind-I
An integrated approach to the heuristic study of pristine textbooks is the crux of intellectual development to venture upon the discipline of mind. Graciously confluent on an independently relaxed environment…
The venture of pristine textbooks on the discipline of mind-II
The initial phase of human education that, according to modern research in child psychology, starts even long before the child has seen the light of the day, is that of…
Teaching history
“ONE reason so many adults become fanatics is that, as children, they are taught a history distorted by parochial obsession.” This is not an observation made by our Prof K.K.…
