Notes from APU

APU will be my third, actually fourth formal learning experience, if you include the school, and fifth, if you include kindergarten. Kindergarten: Milestones, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India Schooling: Delhi Public School, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering: Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg, Chhattisgarh Bachelors in Education: Arihant Institute of Teacher Training, Pune, Maharashtra, India Master of Arts in Education*: Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India Since my exposure to internet and to the Ivy league universities, I always dreamed of studying in one. MIT, Harvard, Oxford. Well, none of that has happened! And I have learnt to make the most of what I have. I am still learning; to make the most of what I have. Right now, I am studying in a college which is really really demanding but equally supportive. The professors are kind and approachable and so are my classmates. We read, discuss and write. There's no pressure of exams. Yes, som...

Aristotle Kant, Can you? Reason is a very important faculty that humans have. Everyone thinks that reason is important In any philosophical community, that reason is the best tool to make sense of the universe. Moral theories talk about reason. Hume How reason is utilised in moral thinking. Many moral, ethical codes. How do we come to the norms? Say dowry. No societal norm should force you to do that. Why is inconvenience a bad thing? Why is murder wrong? It takes the life of another human being. Death is the ultimate harm. In what sense, is death a harm? Reason, feeling, sentiment? Cultural relativism Morality is relative to a person or a community. We share the view  MNoralisty is relative to cultures Depending upon your cultures you would say culture murder is wrong, murder is right. Memdership of your uclture

PEoE Neoliberalism Book my bai Book my Chotu Chotu The VAULT Businesses Is it about a business model? Safety of the child? Chotu refers to child labour. Minimum wage question How will you ensure minimum wage in the informal sector? What is it about minimum wage? Why not maximum wage? These are questions which don't come up at all. Safety rules, something, something Triumph of Neo-liberal Economy What is the gain for the worker?  Its often marginal! For the informal sector worker, it's a gain. Because they would earn lesser in an agricultural setting. Perpetuation of existing forms of inequalities. Neo-liberal industrialisation Caste, race, color etc.  Bookmybai What do you notice? The color of the bai Invisible-isation App based economy Mentions some things, doesn't mention other The prime gainer is often the normalised, upper middle class figure Centre for Sustaina...

https://www.thoughtco.com/functionalist-perspective-3026625 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFdKnfalFMM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9W0GQvONKc&t=379s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jOZqVnQmdY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bq90RKDT0w

Attendance Functionalism Till now we studied general topics. Function of Education in Modern Complex Society. Terms and concepts in sociology Stop me when you feel you've not understood. I am calling it basic outline because this theoretical approach is used to understand why/how society emerges from a mass of individuals. We can see individuals everywhere. Its one way to theorize society. Why in society there are certain institutions, structural features. Sociology and anthropology. These are very closely linked subjects, esp. Social anthropology and sociology. I will present a general outline of this topic. Teacher needs to present argument in full, but as of now a general outline will be presented and we will enrich it later. Also, we aren't doing MA sociology. So we will look at education from the lens of sociology. Keep taking notes. This is how you will understand what you've not understood. First thing is, that a society functions like a system. ...

Some video links: Erikson's psychosocial development Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development 8 Stages of Development by Erik Erikson Overview of theories of development

( Handwritten notes by Roshan ) You gradually realize you find comfort in some areas. Relationships Just imagine the number of interactions you've gone through. If you want to study something you will have to understand the distinct phenomena. Counting frogs Weighing frogs If we imagine that the relationships we build are random, then studying If we need to study something it needs to have some stability If everything is so random, there is no pattern, there is no stability, it doesn’t have distinct characteristic, how shall we study it? What gives stability? Routine: If you do same thing again and again. A group routine. There is a general routine that office timing is nine to five. Its true for Blore, Delhi, Lucknow and Pune. ( Element of Humour ) Understanding patterns. Habits: Give stability to your interactions. These habits could be individual. Customs: Generations after generations. Various things we have been doing in simila...