Emancipative Education: Policies and Practices is a collection of papers presented at the 45th National Annual Research Seminar of the Association of Christian Philosophers of India (ACPI), held at Morning Star College, Barrackpore, West Bengal (from 14th to 16th October 2022). The book philosophically looks into the education system of the past, present and the future; its background, and foreground for an emancipative tomorrow. The papers are arranged in three parts: the archaeology of education, defragmenting education and emancipating for a new world. The First cluster of papers are foundational in nature, analytic in flavour and theoretical in perspectives. The second cluster analyses the education system from religious, subaltern, traditional, indigenous, etc., perspectives. The final cluster understands education as a tool of emancipation from different perspectives such as commercial, political, social, neurological, and virtual. The book, thus, is a handy tool for educationists, social scientists, reformers, researchers, policy makers and students.

Contents

Editorial
Chief Guest’s Address

Part 1: Archaeology of Education: Theories and Issues

1. University as Symbol of Being
    George Panthanmackel

2. Genealogy of Self-Making Experience: Thinking Beyond the Binary of Teaching and Learning
    Nishant A. Irudayadason

3. Bildung in Kant, Hegel and Gadamer: A Cursory Look
    George Rajmohan

4. Plurality of Knowledge: Foucault’s Perspective
    Kamaladevi Kunkolienker

5. Philosophy of Unlearning and Re-learning: Dewey’s Progressive Learning and Models from Neurosciences
   Gregory Mathew Malayil

6. Poesis and Praxis: Ethics and Aesthetics in Education
    Ivan D’Souza

Part 2: Defragmenting Education: Perspectives and Practices

7. Religious Education: Scope and Challenges in India
    Biju Pallippadan

8. Deconstructing the Concepts “Guru” and “Emancipation” in the Context of Education
    Joy Alumkal

9. Traditional Indian Education: A Critique
    John Peter Vallabadoss

10. Indigenous Knowledge and Emancipation
      Raju Felix Crasta

11. Education: Subaltern Perspectives
      Sebastian Alackapally

12. Education in Islam: A Critique
      Jose Pennaparambil

Part 3: Emancipative Education for a New World

13. Existential and Ethical Revisioning of Science Education and Research
      Keith D’Souza

14. Piketty’s Pitfalls: Taming the Neo-Liberal Leviathan in Education
      Jose D. Maliekal

15. Commercialisation Versus Decommercialisation of Education in the Indian Context
      Henry Jose Kodikuthiyil

16. Teaching to Transgress: A Pedagogical Imperative
      Victor Ferrao

17. Emancipative Education: Neurological Perspectives
      Augustine Pamplany

18. Information-Knowledge-Wisdom: The Use of Media in Education with Special Reference to Covid-19
     Francis Arackal Thummy

ACPI Statement
Contributors
Index

Raju Felix Crasta <rfcrasta@gmail.com> has an M.A. in Christian Studies from Madras University, M.Ph. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Jnana Deepa, Pune, Maharashtra. He has written a book titled, “Avibhaga-Bhedabheda in the Vijñanamrtabhasyam of Vijñanabhiksu,” and several scholarly articles in different journals and edited works. Specialized in Vedantic Philosophy, his areas of research and teaching include Epistemology, Hermeneutics, Darshana (Vedic and non-Vedic Systems), Bhagavadgita, Tribal Anthropology, and other Indological issues. He is the editor of Sevartham, the annual research journal published from St. Albert’s College, Ranchi, Jharkhand. He is also the Secretary for the Commission for VSCR (Vocations, Seminaries, Clergy and Religion) of JHAAN (Jharkhand-Andamans) Bishop’s Council. Presently, he is the Director of Philosophy at St. Albert’s College, Ranchi.