Learning and Sustaining Agricultural Practices : The Dialectics of Cultivating Cultivation in Rural India Paperback / softback
by Karen Haydock, Abhijit Sambhaji Bansode, Gurinder Singh, Kalpana Sangale
Part of the International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education series
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This book describes a participatory case study of a small family farm in Maharashtra, India.
It is a dialectical study of cultivating cultivation: how paddy cultivation is learnt and taught, and why it is the way it is.
The paddy cultivation that the family is doing at first appears to be ‘traditional’.
But by observation and working along with the family, the authors have found that they are engaging in a dynamic process in which they are questioning, investigating, and learning by doing.
The authors compare this to the process of doing science, and to the sort of learning that occurs in formal education.
The book presents evidence that paddy cultivation has always been varying and evolving through chance and necessity, experimentation, and economic contingencies.
Through the example of one farm, the book provides a critique of current attempts to sustain agriculture, and an understanding of the ongoing agricultural crisis.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:313 pages, 50 Illustrations, black and white; XXXIII, 313 p. 50 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:29/03/2022
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- ISBN:9783030640675
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:313 pages, 50 Illustrations, black and white; XXXIII, 313 p. 50 illus.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:29/03/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030640675
