A Kerala Studies Blog
In season 3 of Ala podcast, we hold a series of conversations with educators, academics and activists on Education in Kerala. We begin the season with an exploration of the legacy of Protestant Mission schools in Kerala and how they informed childhood-making in colonial Kerala. Who was the good educated child? What kind of values were refracted through these constructions?
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‘Nadodi nruttham’ is an omnipresent cultural form in Kerala’s arts festival spaces. Drawing from her ongoing research into youth festivals in Kerala, Rajashree Raju delves into the caste dynamics behind a form that represents itself as ‘folk’.
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Chance brought together Deepti and Anjana, two researchers from different universities and backgrounds conducting fieldwork in Kozhikode. In a two-part reflective piece, they write about how their shadowing each other during fieldwork resulted in friendship, but also the intellectual quest of reading their field sites in a new light.
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The idea that education should be free in Kerala was in circulation as early as 1904. Although a significant majority were in agreement with this proposal, the excerpt below shows how the idea of free education in State-owned schools was identified as a hindrance to the vision of good education. The prefatory note below is a reading of the editorial published on December 10, 1909.
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Chance brought together Deepti and Anjana, two researchers from different universities and backgrounds conducting fieldwork in Kozhikode. In a two-part reflective piece, they write about how their shadowing each other during fieldwork resulted in friendship, but also the intellectual quest of reading their field sites in a new light.
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Eliza Keyton suggests ways to improve Malayalam language education while elucidating the social landscape, student workload, teacher ability, and other factors that impact the same.
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കേരളത്തിൽ ദളിത് സ്ത്രീ സംവാദവും മുഖ്യധാരാ ഫെമിനിസവും തമ്മിലുള്ള അകലം ഇന്നും നിലനിൽക്കെ, ഇരുപത്തൊന്നാം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിന്റെ തുടക്കത്തിൽ ഇതേക്കുറിച്ചു രേഖാരാജ് എഴുതിയ ഈ ലേഖനം ഇവിടെ പുനഃപ്രസിദ്ധീകരിക്കുന്നു.
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കേരളത്തിൽ ‘അനാദായകരമായ വിദ്യാലയങ്ങള്’ വർദ്ധിക്കുന്നതെന്തുകൊണ്ട്? ജെ. രത്നകുമാറും സുജിത്കുമാറും കേരളത്തിലെ പൊതുവിദ്യാഭ്യാസരംഗത്തെ സങ്കീർണതകൾ വിശകലനം ചെയ്യുന്നു.
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How accessible is Kerala’s much-lauded public education system? Sreejith reviews O.P Raveendran’s new book that explores this question by[…]
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Kendriya Vidyalaya’s innovative “Gift a Book and Get a Friend” programme promotes educational development through inter-school partnerships.
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