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Pandey, Avinash Rambachan – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2023
Mother-tongue education has increasingly become a keyword in formulations of development goals, especially the Sustainable Development Goals (2015). Achievement of these goals acquires a grave sense of urgency in light of the ever-increasing threat to the very fabric of our linguistic diversity. The basic premise of this article is that Gandhian…
Descriptors: Native Language Instruction, Educational Philosophy, Language Skill Attrition, Language Maintenance
Menon, Shailaja; Pallavi – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2022
Multilingual education is an urgent and pressing concern in the Indian educational scenario. While the National Education Policy (2020) acknowledges multilingualism as a resource in educational contexts and reiterates earlier policies calling for mother tongue-based education in elementary classrooms, it does not provide guidance in terms of how…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction
Rajasekaran, Subhashini; Kumar, Rajesh – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2020
In the multilingual, multicultural emerging economy of India, the language debate may seem to have settled with the adoption of the Three-Language Formula in the first National Policy of Education 1968. However, 50 years later, does this policy still hold? Has research on language acquisition informed our education policy and classroom practices,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Indians, Video Technology, Middle Class
Kumar, Deepak; Radha Gayathri, Ch. – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2017
Dr. Zakir Husain is known as a self-less nationalist leader and also as an educationist "par excellence." Taking a cue from his educational ideas like the "Nai Talim," this article brings into focus his views on the medium-conundrum. Dr. Husain was very clear about the role of Indian languages and the relevance of mother…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Language Usage, Language of Instruction, Urdu
Kaur, Gurjeet – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2017
Despite its familiarity and the fact that it becomes a formal area of study in early upper primary grades, optics remains a cognitive challenge for young as well as advanced learners, not only because much of it is counter-intuitive but also because its conceptual comprehension involves negotiating the vocabulary and graphical symbolism involved…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Optics, Comprehension, Science Education
Khunyakari, Ritesh P. – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2015
Enabling learning through meaningful classroom experiences has always been a challenge for teachers. Bringing about a balance of the "conceptual" and the "hands-on", along with contextual embeddedness in problem-solving situations, broadly characterises the experience of development and trials of three Design and Technology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Experiential Learning, Problem Solving
Aggarwal, Garima – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2015
This commentary contextualises Bakhtin's ideas on language in education, with a special emphasis on his construct of dialogism, by producing and examining excerpts from two of his major works. These excerpts familiarise the reader with Bakhtin's four fundamental constructs: "utterance," "dialogism," "heteroglossia,"…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Dialogs (Language), Language Styles, Language Attitudes
Setty, Rohit – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2014
This article presents evidence from a linguistic analysis conducted on the National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education (NCFTE) 2009, and explores the dialogic characteristics of the document driving the current reform of teacher education. I address one orienting research question: in what ways and to what extent are the aims and…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Indians, Foreign Countries, National Curriculum
Agnihotri, Rama Kant – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2013
The basic questions that a scholar interested in the study of language asks are concerned with language structure, acquisition, and change. William Labov is a linguist who has deeply influenced the linguistic scene in the past 60 years. It is to Labov's credit that he showed, backed by solid evidence, that the questions concerning language change,…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Linguistic Theory, Ghettos, Disadvantaged