Learning and Sustaining Agricultural Practices

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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.
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.
Discuses the relations between school education and agriculture, science, and indigenous knowledge Provides a case study and concrete evidence for theories of agricultural development and political economy Uses a dialectical framework to provide an insider perspective on the teaching and learning of skill

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Karen Haydock

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Agrarian Transition Agricultural Crisis in India Case Study of Farm in India Dialectics of Cultivation Vs Education Green Revolution and Education History of Agricultural Education in India History of Rice Cultivation Historical Dialectical Materialism Learning Traditional Paddy Cultivation Marxist Understanding of Agriculture Preservation of Rice Diversity School Education Related to Agriculture The Agrarian Question in India Vocational Education and Skilling India Agricultural Geography

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