English Teachers’ Accounts: Essays on the Teacher, the Text and the Indian Classroom
Nandana Dutta, "English Teachers’ Accounts: Essays on the Teacher, the Text and the Indian Classroom"
English | ISBN: 0367610566 | 2021 | 242 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0367610566 | 2021 | 242 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book looks at the figure of the English teacher in Indian classrooms and examines the practice and relevance of English and India’s colonial legacy, many decades after liberalization.
The book is an account of the varied experiences of teaching English in universities in different parts of the country. It highlights the shifts in curriculum and teaching practices and how the discipline lent itself to a study of culture, historical contexts, the fashioning of identities or reform over the years. The volume also analyses the dramatic changes in the composition of the English classroom in terms of gender, class, caste and indigenous communities in recent decades, as well as the shifts in teaching strategies and curriculum which the new diversity necessitated. The essays in the collection also examine the distinctiveness of English practice in India through classroom accounts which explore themes like post-coloniality, feminism and human rights through the study of texts from Shakespeare, Beckett, Doris Lessing and poetry from the Northeast.
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