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Theorizing the Untheorized: The ‘Indian’ Context of ODL
Pedagogies
Uttara Debi1
Prasenjit Das2*
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Public Policy and Administration Research www.
iiste.
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ISSN 2224-5731(Paper) ISSN 2225-0972(Online)
Vol.
1, No.
1, 2011
43 | P a g e
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Theorizing the Untheorized: The ‘Indian’ Context of ODL
Pedagogies
Uttara Debi1
Prasenjit Das2*
1.
Department of English, Institute of Distance and Open Learning, Gauhati University,
Guwahati 781014, Assam, India
2.
Department of English, Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University, Guwahati 781006,
Assam, India
* E-mail of the corresponding author: prasenjitgu@gmail.
com
Abstract
This paper is a deliberation on some crucial aspects of teaching-learning transactions in open and
distance learning (ODL).
This system, with its relative newness, has given cause for much debate
within India regarding questions of openness , modes of pedagogy and teaching, the principles
nurturing these modes and thus the ultimate question of quality in education.
The continuance of this
debate also reflects the difficulty of any adequate theorization
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