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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Designing a curriculum for children in rural areas

June 17, 2011

The present schooling system and its curriculum have not changed fundamentally over the past 200 years. The current system owes much to the thinking and prejudices of its originator, notably, T.B. Macaulay (an English Governor General) who prepared its foundation note in 1835. This inheritance from a colonial leadership was merged at some level with [...]

A Critique of Eurocentric Social Science and the Question of Alternatives

June 17, 2011

This paper critically examines the existing theoretical framework within which the social sciences are taught and researched in various universities of the non-Western world. It proposes that not just the content but even the assumptions and methodologies guiding the accumulation of knowledge in social science studies disciplines have been uncritically imported from the European academic [...]