Schooling and education: deconstruction of an alternative model in southern India
Student name: Ms Kala Sunil Bada
Guide: Dr L N Venkataraman
Year of completion: 2017
Host Organisation: A School
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Ms Verghese
Abstract: ‘Alternatives’ have been attractive choices of the privileged peripheries in India.
This work seeks to assert the case of an alternative education model as a white-
collar revolution. While ‘alternative’ extends to pedagogy, the process of
othering in a failed state of education, continues. Are the wheels of progressive
pedagogy and equity misaligned?
This work encapsulates a Case Study of a Krishnamurti institution while
conceptually underscoring insights from the paradigm of quality. It explores the
diverse voices embedded in the intersections of philosophy and educational
practices. These educate one of the seas of rigid interfaces between education
and social change. In attending to the rift of ‘individual transformation’, are
institutions revitalising the handbrakes on social change? The author asserts that
the alternative model needs to push beyond its client-centred pedagogy and
attempt the veil of ignorance in all educational practices.
