- Title
- 'Let's hear how students feel ...': representations of schooling on news television in India
- Creator
- Thapliyal, Nisha
- Relation
- Global Studies of Childhood Vol. 5, Issue 1, p. 87-99
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043610615573382
- Publisher
- Symposium Journals
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- The aim of this article is to posit children as political beings and becomings in every aspect of their lives including schooling. This discussion explores the multiplicity of ways in which children actively make meaning about themselves in relation to the actors, institutions and discourses that constitute their lived worlds. It is empirically grounded in critical media analysis of two 2009 prime-time English language television news programmes about school reform. Both these programmes presented ‘what kids think’ through interactions between a total of 22 private secondary school students and Human Resources Development Minister, Kapil Sibal. The analysis draws on a relational reading of the politics in childhood as constituted and enacted in the domain of schooling. In this context, it focuses on how children perceive and negotiate the subject positions and subjectivities presented to them by their families, the state and media. More specifically, this article argues that children are aware of and competent to engage with extent power relations and structures as represented in discourses of schooling.
- Subject
- India; schooling; media analysis; politics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1337957
- Identifier
- uon:27933
- Identifier
- ISSN:2043-6106
- Language
- eng
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