Pedagogical Reflections on Silence in the Classroom: Rekha and Rahul
Nivedita Menon | 27 January 2025 | Kafila
Two early-career teachers in private universities in India reflect on what has quietly transformed in their classrooms over the last few years, as they trace the rise of a new norm of ‘silence’. Their reflections ask what it means to teach in the intimate classroom space as it begins to mirror the shrinking democratic space and what forms of care, courage and pedagogy might keep the classroom thinking in these changing times…