Political Cartoons and Public Debate in Indian Textbooks

In a recent article for @NRO, Perpperdine Univeristy (@pepperdine) President Jim Gash and Jeremy Tate, founder of the @CLT_Exam challenge the idea ...that schools should teach students how to think, rather than what to think.

They argue that education is never entirely neutral:

In a recent interview with @dailystarnews, Shireen Huq, a prominent women’s rights activist in Bangladesh, raises important questions about gender ...and inclusion in education—from the stereotypes embedded in what girls and boys are taught, to body shaming in textbooks and the role

A recent analysis from @PeaceNewsNet examines school textbooks in Iraqi Kurdistan and argues that they could do more to reflect the histories and ...experiences of the region's diverse ethnic and religious communities, including Arabs, Turkmen, Assyrians, Armenians, Yazidis, and

A recent analysis in @the_hindu examines the gradual disappearance of political cartoons from Indian textbooks, prompting discussion about what is ...gained, and what may be lost, when visual satire is removed from the classroom.

Beyond cartoons themselves, the debate highlights