Children's Perception of Sarkar
Subtitle: A Critique of Civics Textbooks
Publisher: Eklavya
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bhopal
Number of pages: 82
Subjects: civcs education
Genres: Education; Textbooks; Civics; curriculum; political science; children
Description: How do children perceive the structure of the government or the Sarkar? Is the information presented in civics textbooks - and the way it is presented - adequate for children to comprehend the nature and functions of these structures? Are these textbooks the only source of children's knowledge of these structures, or do they gather this knowledge also from their observations of the political life around them? These ares some of the questions author pursues in this book
Table of contents: title: Publisher's Note; title: Forward; title: Acknowledgement; title: Introduction; title: Discussion with Children; title: Conclusions and Alternatives