Keywords: Religion, Educational Institutions, Urban Contexts, Working Class Students
Bio: Farah Farooqi is a Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. Previously, she worked for eight years at the Department of Elementary Education, Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi. Farah has written on issues of education, identity, marginalization, ghettoization, and cultural politics. Farah writes both in Hindi and English. Her journey as Manager of a government-aided school documented in this book was previously published by the Eklavya as Aik School Manager ki Diary. Farah has contributed as chief advisor and author to the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks for Environmental Studies for Classes IV and V published between 2006 and 2008. She has also written for teachers and teacher-trainees.
I’ve seen you know how children’s everyday life is affected by the social and economic pressures and tried to see the life context of these children.
In this interview, Farah discusses:
- The history and present of Muslim folks in Old Delhi neighborhoods developing their particular political and social consciousness
- Her role as a manager in the school of the same neighborhood – teaching, observing, learning, and analyzing
- Her highlights across the organization of the school, the interpersonal politics and different spaces where connection and organization occurs, and the harsh material realities of children’s lives and the limits of schooling for them
Further Reading:
- Understanding Life and Education in an Urban “Ghetto”: Shafiq Memorial and Bara Hindu Rao, Delhi”, Education and the Urban in India, Working Paper Series, Max Weber Stiflung: India Branch and German Historical Institute, London,pp 1 to 33 2019 https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2019-00029
- “Silenced and Marginalised: Voices from an Ordinary Sarkari-Aided School of Delhi” Economic & Political Weekly, September 23, 2017 vol lII no 38. • “Encounters and the Telling Silence of Children”, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 47, No. 20, 2012, Pp. 55-63
