Breaking the Silo : Integrated Science Education in India

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Published by Orient Blackswan, 2017

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Conents: Introduction. I. What it was all about: 1. Different Meanings, Different Programmes: Science and Society in Indian Higher Education/Dhruv Raina, Purabi Pattanayak and Vungliankim Valte. 2. Production of Knowledge in the Human and Social Sciences/Raghavendra Gadagkar and Tejaswini Niranjana 3. IISc andthe Integration Experiment/Asha Achuthan. II. Beyond the Metropolis: 4. What is Science?/K. Sridhar. 5. Cognition: The Brain-Mind Divide/Anup Dhar and Tejaswini Niranjana. 6. Science, sociology of science, and society: Is there a relationship?/Gita Chadha.7. History of Science and Technology in Integrating Science Education/Jahnavi Phalkey. 8. Evolution: Dialoguing between Disciplines/Maithreyi Mulupuru. 9. Evolution: Dialoguing between Disciplines/Anindita Bhadra.10. Health, Bio-ethics and the Body/Asha Achuthan. III. Ways of Knowing, Seeing, Doing: The UG Humanities Course: 11. Ways of Knowing: Ethnographic Methods/Maithreyi Mulupuru. 12. Ways of Knowing: Textual Analysis/P.P. Sneha. 13. Ways of Knowing: Historical Methods/Nitya Vasudevan. 14. Ways of Knowing: Psychological Methods/Sabah Siddiqui. 15. Ways of Seeing: Cinema/Ashish Rajadhyaksha. 16. Ways of Seeing: Theatre/Prakash Belawadi.17. Ways of Seeing: Overview/S. V. Srinivas. 18. Ways of Doing: People, Nature, Sustainable Development/Rajan Gurukkal. 19. Ways of Doing: Brain and Mind/Sabah Siddiqui. Index. Is the entrenched division between the natural and human sciences unbridgeable? Is this divide crippling innovation in science, or is it necessary to keep science pure? Between 2006 14, an experiment was conducted in Integrated Science Education (ISE) in several science institutions, including the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune. Breaking the Silo compiles the experiments in pedagogy conducted by people from physics, biology, computer science, sociology, medicine, science studies, philosophy, history, literary studies, film studies, cultural studies, theatre, and visual arts. This experiment seeks to throw new light on the 'two cultures' theory that has beset India's science institutions. By combining the sciences and humanities, innovative solutions can be found for the complex social problems facing us today. (jacket). …

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Title
Breaking the Silo : Integrated Science Education in India
Author
Anup Dhar, Tejaswini Niranjana and K. Sridhar
Publisher
Orient Blackswan
Publication year
2017
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Soft cover
Language
English
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