@article{fdi:010026458,
  title = {{L}earning modernity : the technologies of education in {I}ndia},
  author = {{K}umar, {N}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{T}his paper is an ethnographic interpretation of schools in a provincial {N}orth {I}ndian city to highlight the working of the 'technologies' of education, particularly of how buildings, spaces, and rituals work. {T}he argument is that there is pain for the children at an everyday level from the working of these instances of technology. {B}ut there is even greater pain at the level of the whole life or career, in that the schools do not succeed in producing the modern citizen subject they claim to believe in. {T}hese provincial schools are certainly an instance of 'modernity' but one that has to be interrogated. {I}ndeed the schools themselves in their functioning question the pure models of which they are supposedly copies. {B}ut, the paper suggest, scholars need to problematize much further their critique of modernity by looking at the relative positions of children, educators, observers, and the nation state.},
  keywords = {{JEUNESSE} ; {EDUCATION} {DES} {ENFANTS} ; {SYSTEME} {EDUCATIF} ; {HISTOIRE} ; {TECHNOLOGIE} ; {INFRASTRUCTURE} ; {CENTRE} {URBAIN} {SECONDAIRE} ; {MODERNITE} ; {ACCULTURATION} ; {ETABLISSEMENT} {D}'{ENSEIGNEMENT} ; {LANGUE} {VERNACULAIRE} ; {NIVEAU} {D}'{INSTRUCTION} ; {SOCIOLOGIE} ; {PSYCHOLOGIE} ; {ECOLE} {CORANIQUE} ; {CONSTRUCTION} ; {AIRE} {DE} {JEU} ; {INDE}},
  booktitle = {{L}es jeunes : hantise de l'espace public dans les soci{\'e}t{\'e}s du {S}ud ?},
  journal = {{A}utrepart},
  volume = {18},
  numero = {},
  pages = {85--100},
  ISSN = {1278-3986},
  year = {2001},
  DOI = {10.3917/autr.018.0085},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010026458},
}