Research Articles by Navneet Sharma
भारतीय समाजशास्त्र समीक्षा , 2023
सामाजीकरण की प्रक्रिया में अस्मिता अपना दायरा भिन्न-भिन्न प्रकार से निर्धारित करती है, जिसमें नाम... more सामाजीकरण की प्रक्रिया में अस्मिता अपना दायरा भिन्न-भिन्न प्रकार से निर्धारित करती है, जिसमें नाम, धर्म, जाति, वर्ग, क्षेत्र, समदाय, लैं ु गिकता, वर्ण, भाषा आदि अहम भ् मिू का निभाते हैं (जेरी एवं जेरी, 2000, पष्ठ 555-556)। समाज में विद्यमान इन्हीं चरों के सामहिू क या व्यक्तिगत वर्चस्व को स्थापित करने तथा बनाये रखने के लिए संघर्षहोता है, जिससे शोषण तथा शोषणकारी व्यवस्था का जन्म होता है। यह सर्वविदित तथ्य है कि भारतीय सामाजिक व्यवस्था में सबसे अधिक दमन दलित समदाय का हूआ है (कुमार, 2006, पष्ठ 31)। इस आलेख में दलित अस्मिता की निर्मिती और शिक्षा-विमर्शमें उसकी भमिूका को इगिंत करने के लिए तीन दलित आत्मकथाओ के माध्यम से अस्मिता की वैयक्तिक एवं
सामाजिक निर्मिती में शिक्षा तथा शिक्षण संस्थानों की भमिूका एवं दलितों के संघर्षों की पड़ताल की गई है। साहित्य होने के नाते इसे काल्पनिक, और आत्मकथा होने
के नाते मात्र वैयक्तिक, कहकर नजरअंदाज नहीं किया जा सकता। साहित्य एक ओर तो समाज का दर्पण होता है, वहीं दसरी ओर ये आत्मकथाएं सामाजिक संरचना और व्यवस्था में भोगे गए जीवंतअनभवों को प्रदर्शित करती हैं। इन्हीं कारणों से शिक्षा और स्कूलीकरण की महती भमिू का का दलित आत्मकथाओ एवं अस्मिता के संदर्भ में विवेचन ही इस आलेख का उदेश्य है।
मुख्य शब्द: दलित-अस्मिता, दलित साहित्य, सामाजीकरण, राष्ट्र-निर्माण
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मध्य भारती, 2023
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Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange, 2023
The present study investigates the awareness of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) among special... more The present study investigates the awareness of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) among special and general teachers working in inclusive settings. UDL is a framework used to design a curriculum reachable to students with all abilities. UDL assists teachers to increase meaningful access to the curriculum and remove barriers for students with all abilities in learning. The roles and responsibilities of the teachers play an important role in implementing and transacting any curriculum to the learners. In the present study, the sample consisted of 429 teachers, teaching in primary, upper primary, secondary, and higher secondary stages of regular schools in Himachal Pradesh state of India. The sample for this study was selected through the purposive sampling technique and the descriptive survey research design was employed in the current study. Assessing awareness among teachers about UDL the questionnaire on UDL was used on the selected samples. The data was collected from samples through face-to-face interaction. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to compare the awareness level of UDL between special and general teachers. The result revealed that the teachers in Himachal Pradesh were not fully aware of the UDL. Special teachers have a higher awareness of UDL than general teachers and the successful implementation of UDL in inclusive setting require an entire school approach wherein every part of the system should be geared to address the needs of diverse students.
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प्रतिमान, सीएसडीएस , 2020
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सामाजिक विमर्श , 2021
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Journal of Scientific Temper, Oct 2020
Indians being 'argumentative' can even justify the indefensible and the conventional scientific l... more Indians being 'argumentative' can even justify the indefensible and the conventional scientific logic and rationality appear amorphous and adjustable to us, which can be tailored to justify our firmly held superstitious beliefs and obscurantist practices. Scientific temper is a requisite to evolve an 'Ask why' society to sustain and reinvigorate the Indian democracy, which needs to be re-understood in the context of popular culture and pedagogical practices of science education. In this article, we tend to problematize what is scientific temper? Why scientific temper continues to elude us despite being part of our constitutional fundamental duty and framework. The aim is to negotiate with the idea of science as understood by Indians, while simultaneously deconstructing the idea of Indian science. The article will also explore the pedagogical concerns of science education in India. The penultimate question would be about the possibility of evolving scientific temper with the contemporary science education policies and system. The paper attempts to analyze how science education in Indian classroom settings continues to evade evolvement of scientific temper.
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Asian Ethnicity, 2020
ABSTRACT
The Kashmir has an intriguing political and social landscape. The idea of Kashmir is non... more ABSTRACT
The Kashmir has an intriguing political and social landscape. The idea of Kashmir is nonetheless guided by multiple narratives created by different stakeholders in Kashmir. The Kashmir falls under the control of three nuclear powers, namely India, Pakistan and China. The accession of an erstwhile princely state of Kashmir to India had different conflicts in store, with the result of which South Asian nuclear-armed neighbours fought three wars to claim the Kashmir territory, besides coming close to a nuclear blaze. The argumentation about the Kashmir among different stakeholders in Kashmir poses the threat to peace in South Asia. We look at different perspectives of various stakeholders. In this paper, we attempt to emphasize that why none of the stakeholders wants a resolution for Kashmir conflict and why all of them want Kashmir, if not to burn but it must simmer continuously.
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Sinéctica, 2019
The industrialization and its consequential imperialism and colonialism have impacted this world ... more The industrialization and its consequential imperialism and colonialism have impacted this world for three centuries. India has been a colony of the British Empire for two centuries. These eventful two centuries of Indian history did see the influence of not only the political and economical might of the “great” Britain, but its influence on every milieu of Indian life. India’s indigenous education system was gradually displaced and the colonial model of education pervaded under the patronage from the colonial-state. The language, pedagogy, evaluation and knowledge of the colonizer became naturalis obligato for the population of the colony. India got independence in 1947 and took to the task of decolonizing education immediately. The attempts to decolonize education from various standpoints of political activism, universalism and religious nationalism are charted in this article. What decolonizing education should entail and how India has responded to this question in the last century and how the neo-liberal order has supported a particular ideology to have a dominant say in this process are concerns of this article. We analyse how re-schooling and indoctrination are projected as the most nationalist response for methodical decolonizing of education.
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Journalism as a practice is mandated to disseminate information. It plays the role of an intermed... more Journalism as a practice is mandated to disseminate information. It plays the role of an intermediary between the power ‘haves’, the power ‘less’ and the marginalized. This commentary considers how journalism, being a political activity, cannot be bereft of ideology, particularly in a country—India—where many journalists openly allow their ideological beliefs to be reflected in their reporting of political issues. Subsequently, the authors question the pedagogy of teaching political journalism in an environment in which there is a clear divide between the academicians and the practitioners.
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Abstract: This article addresses the objectives, philosophy, and need assessment of connect excha... more Abstract: This article addresses the objectives, philosophy, and need assessment of connect exchange programmes (CEP) in media studies. It underlines the importance of CEPs as an effort to mitigate the chasms created by a discriminatory, hierarchical, and fragmented society. Simultaneously, this article questions how CEPs can contribute to the paradigm of media studies when the institutions of media and media Studies still abide by the vision of age-old understanding of the constitution of Media and its function. This article raises a pitch for viewing media studies as a discipline with an integral commitment to society and social issues rather than relying upon the training of ‘graduates’ to fit in the needs and demands of the job market. This article emphasizes that how a CEP can contribute to the making of a ‘universal global citizenry.’
Keywords: Connect Exchange Program, Pedagogical Endurance, Media Studies, Globalization,
Collaboration
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This article attempts to explore the viability of journalism as academic research, asking the una... more This article attempts to explore the viability of journalism as academic research, asking the unasked question about the mandate of Journalism as theory, practice and in praxis. Though the question has been discussed and debated much from different perspectives by the stakeholders of the discipline. This article argues that the present mandate of journalism and its history shows that it is mainly aimed at knowing knowledge or disseminating knowledge to empower people or to help them develop perspectives than producing knowledge, unlike the mandate of academic research. Different traditions and discourses through which Journalism has evolved into a practice and discipline and the ideals and ideologies guiding it as a profession or passion, envision it as a major force that facilitates the public sphere by catalysing dissemination, classification and verification of information/knowledge. This article argues that the functions of Journalism as a professional practice is disseminating knowledge rather than ‘producing’ knowledge per se. Journalism as a discipline, practice and praxis does not produce knowledge in as much as it engages with the adaptation, accumulation and acclimatization of knowledge produced.
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Media Anthropology is an emerging and evolving discipline which engages with the social and cultu... more Media Anthropology is an emerging and evolving discipline which engages with the social and cultural aspects of Media and its inter-face with people. As an inter-disciplinary field of study Media anthropology is enriched by the contributions, innovations and practice of all cultural and human studies. It is an attempt for Anthropological understanding with the help of visuals and is popularly known as Visual Anthropology. This article, attempts to locate Media Anthropology as a legitimate effort in academic enterprise to understand Media and Media Studies from an anthropological perspective. The article attempts for an in-depth analysis of the interactions taking place between various academic and applied aspects of anthropology and multitude of media and underscores references from India. The study deals with the new directions to reconceptualize mass media relations to culture and society and their particular role in providing common arenas for constructing social relations. The article explores diverse concepts of media content consumption and their moral evaluation.
The article looks at Media Anthropology as an emerging discipline which offers a holistic approach to redress the problem of the integration of anthropological knowledge into the cultural lives of the people. The relevance of media anthropological studies discussed in this article is to understand the intricate connection of media production and consumption with the wider processes of commoditization and transnational culture and to analyze how media professionals are situating themselves and their work in relation to more global media trends.
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Mainstream Weekly , 2020
Those who don the historian’s hat are expected to unearth, collect, and present facts that make a... more Those who don the historian’s hat are expected to unearth, collect, and present facts that make a coherent and cogent narrative. A historian also must have the historical sensibility and historical mind. Though history is known as the story of the past yet it is not a story but a reconstruction of the past based on pieces of evidence and sources. Before going into the appreciation of historical sensibility and historical mind of GD Bakshi and the invitation to him as a historian by the vice-chancellor of the university which is ranked numero uno despite dislike by the people at the helm, one should acknowledge that the students and faculty of Centre for Historical Studies, JNU have issued press releases condemning and distancing themselves from the organization of this event. Bakshi was invited to speak upon a book that he has written whose Kindle edition was launched recently at The Saraswati Civilization: A Paradigmatic Shift in Indian History. Bakshi’s book has claimed to launch ’a massive campaign to correct the ancient Indian history presented by the British, with facts and figures.’ The book’s description suggests that this is the ’authentic’ Indian history for which evidence, discoveries, and facts are brought together by the author with the help of sources ranging from satellite imagery, geology, hydrodynamics, textual hermeneutics, and DNA research. Bakshi had a long stint with the Indian Army and retired as Major-General. He is a well-decorated officer and has held important posts and positions in the defense establishment. It is astonishing how, despite his grueling career in the defense establishment, he could find time for his exhaustive and extensive research on ancient Indian history. In fact, he has also researched modern Indian history and has attempted to answer another question which has baffled historians for a long that Gandhi or Bose, who got the Indians their freedom.
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Mainstream Weekly , 2019
Every year people in and around Delhi and in the so-called ‘cow belt’ wait with baited breath for... more Every year people in and around Delhi and in the so-called ‘cow belt’ wait with baited breath for not only monsoon in Sawan or Shravan but also for the peaceful conduct of the KanwarYatra. This yearly ritual is dreaded because lumpenism and hooliganism run amok on the street and the government not only turns a blind eye to these but rather facilitates them as these not only help in creating a devout Hindu vote-bank but also fulfil Hindutva—the majoritarian Hindu agenda of the party at the helm. The Chief Minister in saffron robes, an IAS officer showering petals, an IPS officer massaging your feet and Chandrayaan being launched in consultation with the auspices of Sankaracharya can give any ‘Bhole’ (Kanwariya) the feeling that he is beyond the world and the law; rather he is the world and the law. In this commentary, we do not intend to get into the discourse of sociology of Hindu rituals but wish to appreciate the politicisation of a ritual.
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Mainstream Weekly , 2018
The feminist perspective of history has always critically perceived the discipline as his-story a... more The feminist perspective of history has always critically perceived the discipline as his-story and the women’s narrative is dismissed as hearsay (her-say?!). Women may owe half of the sky and the earth but history has always relegated them to harems, petticoat-politics and jauhar. The contemporary times attempt hard to not let her break the glass ceiling of man’s hold over history-writing and historicity. The controversy and upheaval over Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s epic movie, Padmavat(i), which has captured the national consciousness more than any other concern pertaining to women, mirrors the same domination and monopoly of males even on narratives that are constructed around women. The film, Padmavat(i), has recently become a matter of national interest and all other issues, which actually demand the nation’s heed and scrutiny, have been sidelined.
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आउटलुक, 2022
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आउटलुक, 2021
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Mainstream Weekly, 2020
Historical consciousness is about being conscious of the historicity of the facts. A historian mu... more Historical consciousness is about being conscious of the historicity of the facts. A historian must be conscious of the difference between fact, fiction, and factoid. A fact is observed by a historian from the vantage point of the historiography that s/he is trained in and influenced by. Facts can be drab and dry but facts must be allowed to speak for themselves rather than a historian putting words into their mouth
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Mainstream Weekly , 2020
War is an extreme aggression and destruction leading to mortality. It is only a masculine respon... more War is an extreme aggression and destruction leading to mortality. It is only a masculine response to economic, political, geographical, religious and cultural conflicts. No war is fought for the sake of war but for peace or for the control over the ability to disturb peace. War is an economic enterprise. It benefits an ideology to be in perpetual state of war. The arms industry and profit mongering survive on the spate of fear and insecurity among people. The political compulsions of the governments at helm also contribute to the idea that war is at door or we are at war. In an era, when mass media rules our lives; and decision or choice making ability 24X7 being in tizzy favours commerce and commercialization.
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Mainstream Weekly, 2016
The physiology and psychology of women has always been shrouded in mystery as stated in the prove... more The physiology and psychology of women has always been shrouded in mystery as stated in the proverb: “triya charitram, purushasya bhagyam, devo na janati kashchit manushya (women’s character/trait/behaviour and men’s destiny is unknown to god even, how the mortal man can fathom)”. In every mythological explanation of the genesis and origins of earth and humankind women have been portrayed as playing second fiddle to men and most of the time are depicted as secondary creations of the divine self. The women are not even, according to Hindu mythology, directly the atman as a part of parmatman. They have to approach god via men or it is better if they perceive man as god. The pati-parmeshwar idea succinctly expresses this. Women, moreover, are not entitled to ‘swarg’ (Hindu-heaven) as they cannot pay back three ‘rinas’ (debts), namely, Guru-rina,Matri-rina, and Pitra-rina, which, as per the scriptures, clears the path to heaven. Women and non-dwijas cannot seek education/knowledge, as it is in Samskrita (dev-vani — language of gods), and women were forbidden from learning the language.
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Research Articles by Navneet Sharma
सामाजिक निर्मिती में शिक्षा तथा शिक्षण संस्थानों की भमिूका एवं दलितों के संघर्षों की पड़ताल की गई है। साहित्य होने के नाते इसे काल्पनिक, और आत्मकथा होने
के नाते मात्र वैयक्तिक, कहकर नजरअंदाज नहीं किया जा सकता। साहित्य एक ओर तो समाज का दर्पण होता है, वहीं दसरी ओर ये आत्मकथाएं सामाजिक संरचना और व्यवस्था में भोगे गए जीवंतअनभवों को प्रदर्शित करती हैं। इन्हीं कारणों से शिक्षा और स्कूलीकरण की महती भमिू का का दलित आत्मकथाओ एवं अस्मिता के संदर्भ में विवेचन ही इस आलेख का उदेश्य है।
मुख्य शब्द: दलित-अस्मिता, दलित साहित्य, सामाजीकरण, राष्ट्र-निर्माण
The Kashmir has an intriguing political and social landscape. The idea of Kashmir is nonetheless guided by multiple narratives created by different stakeholders in Kashmir. The Kashmir falls under the control of three nuclear powers, namely India, Pakistan and China. The accession of an erstwhile princely state of Kashmir to India had different conflicts in store, with the result of which South Asian nuclear-armed neighbours fought three wars to claim the Kashmir territory, besides coming close to a nuclear blaze. The argumentation about the Kashmir among different stakeholders in Kashmir poses the threat to peace in South Asia. We look at different perspectives of various stakeholders. In this paper, we attempt to emphasize that why none of the stakeholders wants a resolution for Kashmir conflict and why all of them want Kashmir, if not to burn but it must simmer continuously.
Keywords: Connect Exchange Program, Pedagogical Endurance, Media Studies, Globalization,
Collaboration
The article looks at Media Anthropology as an emerging discipline which offers a holistic approach to redress the problem of the integration of anthropological knowledge into the cultural lives of the people. The relevance of media anthropological studies discussed in this article is to understand the intricate connection of media production and consumption with the wider processes of commoditization and transnational culture and to analyze how media professionals are situating themselves and their work in relation to more global media trends.
Commentary by Navneet Sharma
सामाजिक निर्मिती में शिक्षा तथा शिक्षण संस्थानों की भमिूका एवं दलितों के संघर्षों की पड़ताल की गई है। साहित्य होने के नाते इसे काल्पनिक, और आत्मकथा होने
के नाते मात्र वैयक्तिक, कहकर नजरअंदाज नहीं किया जा सकता। साहित्य एक ओर तो समाज का दर्पण होता है, वहीं दसरी ओर ये आत्मकथाएं सामाजिक संरचना और व्यवस्था में भोगे गए जीवंतअनभवों को प्रदर्शित करती हैं। इन्हीं कारणों से शिक्षा और स्कूलीकरण की महती भमिू का का दलित आत्मकथाओ एवं अस्मिता के संदर्भ में विवेचन ही इस आलेख का उदेश्य है।
मुख्य शब्द: दलित-अस्मिता, दलित साहित्य, सामाजीकरण, राष्ट्र-निर्माण
The Kashmir has an intriguing political and social landscape. The idea of Kashmir is nonetheless guided by multiple narratives created by different stakeholders in Kashmir. The Kashmir falls under the control of three nuclear powers, namely India, Pakistan and China. The accession of an erstwhile princely state of Kashmir to India had different conflicts in store, with the result of which South Asian nuclear-armed neighbours fought three wars to claim the Kashmir territory, besides coming close to a nuclear blaze. The argumentation about the Kashmir among different stakeholders in Kashmir poses the threat to peace in South Asia. We look at different perspectives of various stakeholders. In this paper, we attempt to emphasize that why none of the stakeholders wants a resolution for Kashmir conflict and why all of them want Kashmir, if not to burn but it must simmer continuously.
Keywords: Connect Exchange Program, Pedagogical Endurance, Media Studies, Globalization,
Collaboration
The article looks at Media Anthropology as an emerging discipline which offers a holistic approach to redress the problem of the integration of anthropological knowledge into the cultural lives of the people. The relevance of media anthropological studies discussed in this article is to understand the intricate connection of media production and consumption with the wider processes of commoditization and transnational culture and to analyze how media professionals are situating themselves and their work in relation to more global media trends.