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Rurality, Modernity, and Education
Unquestioned social scientific knowledge about modernity says that it is urban. For the rural, the only way to modernise is to develop symptoms of the urban. As a universal instrument of modernity, education is under compulsion to encourage the rural to become urban. This article examines the grammar of rural-urban relations and locates a deep anomaly which arises from the essentially "rural" character of pedagogic modernism.
This article is based on an address delivered by the author on 12 August 2013 to mark the Foundation Day of the National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi.
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