School Worlds: An Ethnographic Study (Sociology and Social Anthropology of Education in South Asia) - Sharma, Anuradha

An in-depth analysis of how social constituents of identity influence and are influenced by the processes of a specific social site―a school.School Worlds addresses debates on:• The role that a school plays in the construction of gender, social class and religious attitudes of its students• The kind of interactions that take place in school settings due to the varied perceptions of these social identities• The influence of peer relations and the manner in which gender differences are constituted, re-structured and sometimes overcomeThe book focuses on the experiences of schooling through an ethnographic study of everyday life in a secondary school. It assesses classroom interactions amongst teachers and pupils as well as the non-classroom situations within the school space, highlighting the diversity in such spaces that help generate notions of identity.