Festivalization of Rigor: Productive Masti [Playfulness] at a Pharmacy College in India.
This paper documents play in the context of technoscience education in India. Drawing on data from an ethnography of a pharma college, it describes youthful, pedagogic, and professional play. Youthful masti subverted rigor. At the college, it was amplified into a festival and monetized by social net...
| Published in: | Anthropology & Education Quarterly Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 167 - 187 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2022
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