| Description |
1 online resource (325 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Social Change in Contemporary India
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Social change in contemporary India.
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Publisher Note -- Half Title -- Acknowledgements -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Series -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Education Policy and Practice in India An Introduction -- Section I Education Challenges -- Chapter 1 The Challenge* -- Chapter 2 Literacy in the Third World* -- Chapter 3 Adult Education in India* Policy and Perspectives -- Chapter 4 The State of Education in Rural India* Problems and Prospects -- Chapter 5 The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009* The Story of a Missed Opportunity |
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Chapter 6 Universalization of Secondary Education* -- Chapter 7 Education Beyond Classrooms* -- Chapter 8 Overall Educational Planning in India* Retrospect and Prospect -- Section II Education of Women and Social Change -- Chapter 9 Colonialism and Women's Education in India* -- Chapter 10 Educating India's Women for Social Change* -- Chapter 11 Policy Discourse and Exclusion-Inclusion of Women in Higher Education in India* -- Section III Higher Education and Research -- Chapter 12 Crisis in Higher Education in India* -- Chapter 13 The Foreign Educated Indian* His Dilemma |
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Chapter 14 Issues in Development of Higher Education* The Indian Context -- Chapter 15 Directing Teaching and Research in India for Development* -- Chapter 16 Research Culture in Indian universities* -- Section IV Reforming Education -- Chapter 17 Reforms in Higher Education* In Retrospect -- Chapter 18 Marketing Education* Where Are We Heading? -- Chapter 19 Safeguarding Education as Public Good and Regulating Private Providers* -- Chapter 20 Promising but Perplexing Solutions* A Critique of the Draft National Education Policy 2019 -- About the Editors and the Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
The book provides valuable insights into complex policy issues in education in India at the grassroots as well as macro levels. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Education -- India.
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Education. |
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India. |
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Education and state -- India.
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Education and state. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Tilak, Jayandhala B G., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tilak, Jayandhala B G Education in India New Delhi : SAGE Publications,c2021 9789353887421 |
| ISBN |
9353887437 |
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9789353887438 (electronic book) |
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