Book Review: Avijit Pathak, Ten Lectures on Education: Pedagogic and Sociological Sensibilities

Without a doubt, this volume is something of a first. No book has traversed the ground that this one has. The educational market has existed for a while in India with no one casting a critical eye at it. James Tooley’s work which is perhaps the only other research which has delved into this area has only lauded the work of low-fee private schools on the basis of questionable assumptions and conclusions. In any case, no book has attempted to package the theoretical and the empirical into a single volume. This volume has, therefore, deeply enriched the nature of prevalent educational discourse. It has also opened up a number of avenues for further research and also enabled new ‘ways of looking’ at the current scenario.