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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Apr
Pages: 20
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Festivalization of Rigor: Productive "Masti" [Playfulness] at a Pharmacy College in India
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, v53 n2 p167-186 Apr 2022
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 networking sites. Pedagogic and professional play could subvert and rescue rigor. The ubiquity of play and its diverging directions show how play opened life and learning to capitalist extraction.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pharmaceutical Education, Higher Education, Social Media, Play, Educational Quality, Academic Standards, Barriers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India
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