The Chaotic Order

Here is a book that flows like a river, and invites its readers to a rhythmic walk with a teacher who narrates his pedagogic travelogue, reflects on the vocation of teaching and the culture of higher education, and reveals the classroom experiences that unite critical enquiry and artistic sensibilities. Lucid, profound and transparent-the book is bound to arouse the imagination of social scientists, teachers, researchers, students and all those who believe that it is still possible to celebrate the art of teaching.

Avijit Pathak is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His other books include Modernity, Globalization and Identity: Towards a Reflexive Quest; Recalling the Forgotten: Education and Moral Quest; The Rhythm of Life and Death; Indian Modernity: Contradictions, Paradoxes and Possibilities; Discontents of a Culture; Social Implications of Schooling: Knowledge, Pedagogy and Consciousness and On Social Constraints and the Great Longing: An Essay on the Human Condition.