About the Book

The study of education-polity relationship is a new and neglected area of research, particularly in India. With an inter-disciplinary comparative approach in view, the study focuses on the role of mainly, the formal education in providing input supports to the system of polity. It provides supports by making individual learners, politically aware and conscious; politically knowledgeable, critical and committed; politically knowledgeable, critical and comitted; politically active and participant. These are the basic political requirements of any democratic system to survive.

About Author

Ehsanul Haq is an Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is M.A. from Aligarh Muslim University, and M.Phil and Ph.D from Jawaharlal Nehru University. His main area of specialization is Sociology of Education.

Contents

Preaface, Introduction, Education, Democratic Structure and Process, Emerging Political Consciousness, Education and National Reconstruction, Imparting Democracy as a system of values, Polictical Consciousness of School teachers, Sources of Political Attitude Formation of the Citizens im making, Education, Family size and the consciousness for power, education caste and Political Mobilization, Education, Polity and Society, Plicy Implications.

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