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100 1 _aHebbar N., Nandini.
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245 1 0 _aGender, caste, and class in South India's technical institutions /
_cNandini Hebbar N..
260 _aOxford:
_bOxford University Press,
_c2024.
263 _a2404
300 _a257p.
490 0 _aEducation and society south asia series
520 _a"The introductory chapter examines how the immense social value placed on technical education as a viable route to a good life, respectable middle-class identity, and high status have contributed to a specific kind of subject-making on engineering campuses across Tamil Nadu. While enforcing a performativity of the acceptable in the social realm, the institutional structure also propagates a pedagogy that is uncritical and mechanically derived; a pedagogy that emphasizes application over criticism, and structure over individual. Though students are not simply 'interpellated' by this pedagogy and disciplinary framework in an Althusserian manner, it does have a role to play in crafting a distinct subjectivity and sense of self-worth. Even as students negotiate these institutional constraints, it has become an integral part of college life and the ways in which 'youth' is experienced"--
650 _aEducation,
_vEngineering college.
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