Introduction: pedagogy and development --
Researching pedagogic reform --
The political project of child-centered education in India --
Education reform in Karnataka: two pedagogies for development --
On being a teacher: work stories in contexts of change --
. Educating the rural child --
Principles of instruction --
Nali Kali in Mallige Primary School --
Learner-centered teaching at Kamala Primary School --
Child-centered pedagogies and the promise of democratic schooling

Pedagogies for Development takes a sociological approach to examine the introduction of child-centred education in contemporary Indian policy and school contexts. It investigates the promise of democratic learning in development discourses to ask how far child-centred models can address poverty and social inequalities in rural Indian communities. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research conducted in the south Indian state of Karnataka, the book offers a multi-level analysis of international, national and state education practices of pedagogic reform