textbook culture: pedagogy and classroom processes

This volume captures the essence of schooling in a structural manner and explores the classroom life in the larger schooling context. The emphasis is to uncover the necessary framework of classroom that is significant to understand the place of textbooks in the Indian school education system.

Pooja Bhalla is a teacher in a school in Delhi. She has a Doctorate in Sociology from Delhi University. She is a recipient of University Grants Commission’s Junior and later Senior, Research Fellowship. Her research interests are sociology of education, educational policy, curriculum and pedagogy, post-colonial frameworks of schooling and ethnographic studies, qualitative studies in education.