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Raina, Jyoti – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2021
This paper is a reflective account of a travel that shifted the site of initial elementary teacher education from a metropolitan milieu of New Delhi; to the contrasting locale of a remote mountain region in the central Himalayas. This shift of site aimed to re-locate the concerns of quality schooling, diversity and ecological living to this new…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Metropolitan Areas, Rural Areas, Teacher Education Programs
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Naik, J. P. – International Review of Education, 1979
Since independence in 1947, India's educational goals have included expansion, improved quality, and equal opportunity. The author analyzes India's successes and failures in reaching these goals in the context of its limited economic resources, the traditional educational values of its people, and its traditionally stratified social system. (SJL)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Caste, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations
Das Gupta, Monica; Lee, Sunhwa; Uberoi, Patricia; Wang, Danning; Wang, Lihong; Zhang, Xiaodan – 2000
This paper compares the influence of state policies on gender roles and women's empowerment in China, India, and South Korea. In 1950, these newly formed states were largely poor and agrarian, with common cultural factors that placed similar severe constraints on women's autonomy. The three countries followed very different paths of development,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Empowerment, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females