Dynamic Learning Spaces in Education
This volume discusses the need for a major paradigm shift in educational practice in the current digital and globalized world. It establishes a bridge between theory and praxis and revisits the objectives of learning and its modalities within the context
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Dynamic Learning Spaces in Education
Dynamic Learning Spaces in Education
Veena Kapur Sudipta Ghose •
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Dynamic Learning Spaces in Education
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Editors Veena Kapur Shyama Prasad Mukherji College University of Delhi New Delhi, Delhi India
Sudipta Ghose Shyama Prasad Mukherji College University of Delhi New Delhi, Delhi India
ISBN 978-981-10-8520-8 ISBN 978-981-10-8521-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8521-5
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This book is dedicated to all the teacher educators and practitioners committed to the process and transaction of education.
Preface
We wrote this book to create an appropriate forum for presenting and analyzing the contemporary educational space, positing theoretical and practical issues that temper educational discourse. Education today is experiencing a major paradigm shift, necessitating the reorganization of systems and alignment with emerging needs and trends. The process of teaching learning, mobility of learners across learning spaces, the democratization of knowledge and the consequent change in the role of the teacher bring to the fore the urgent need to revisit the goal of education itself, reviewing it under a critical lens. The need to critique is inherent in the process of realignment, for it brings out, in stark relief, the category of learners and areas of education that are on the lowest rung of development. In this context, the book brings to the fore some important issues that need to be addressed for establishing relevant and meaningful education: the
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