Research and Writings on Education

A collection of reading notes, thoughts and experiences

Rethinking School

Let’s begin with a confession: at farm hill, we rarely call ourselves a “school.” The word feels too tight, too loaded with assumptions about time, authority, and what it…

Bernstein - Language, Education and Social Reproduction

This material is based on the following books, read through notebooklm.

Language acquisition - Bruner, Chomsky and Deb Roy

This transcript records a class discussion analyzing Deb Roy’s TED Talk, “The Birth of a Word,” which details a study using extensive home video recordings to model a…

Mirabai - Perspectives and Sources of History

Mira was brought up in an orthodox, upper caste household. She was devoted to Krishna from childhood. She was forcibly married off to a prince or someone in a high position.…

Timeline of Milestones in Indian Education - 17th Century onwards

History of Education

1600: East India Company receives its charter

Notes from Ambedkar’s Columbia lecture on Caste

Dr. Ambedkar sets up the importance of studying caste. Caste is a parceling out of a homogenous population. Various definitions of caste are then examined and the…