ThinkPieces

Education.SouthAsia invites original and analytic pieces that make interdisciplinary contributions to the issue of education in South Asia. If you have exciting materials that you'd like to submit, please share your ideas with us. Details in the author guidelines below.

ThinkPieces Guidelines

ThinkPieces are the views of author/s, and do not represent the position of Education South Asia, University of Oxford, or University College London.

“Where am I in the Text?”: Localising Literature in the Indian Classroom

I began my training in academia as an undergraduate student of B.A. Honours English at Delhi University. Recalling a professor’s […]

Getting the Foundation Right: Instilling a Real Sense of ‘Crisis’ about the ‘Learning Crisis’

In 1944, Sir John Philip Sargent, Principal Education Advisor to the British Government, shared a draft memorandum calling attention to […]

Innovation Spotlight Series – Spotlight 3: SaySomethingin.com

“Revolutionising Language Teaching in South Asia: The “Anyone Can Teach” Approach” Introduction: The landscape of language teaching in South Asia […]

Overcoming the ‘ordinary’ through Disability Studies

In this ThinkPiece, I wish to articulate how a particular understanding of disability can allow educators to transgress frameworks of […]

Navigating Ideal Worker Expectations: A Single Female Academician in Bangladesh during Pandemic

“When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters – one represents danger, and the other represents […]

Artisan education and craft practice- Interwoven models of learning

Most conversations about education address the domain of formal institutional knowledge and cerebral modes of learning, re-enforcing the binary of […]