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International Student Orientations: Indian Students at American Universities around the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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Ajmera, Param S. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines the writings and experiences of five Indian international students in the United States during late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By drawing attention to these students, I attend to the ways in which notions of freedom, progress, and inclusivity associated with American higher education, and liberalism more…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Indians, Power Structure, Nationalism
Power Relations in the Force Field of Academia: A Close Reading of Srividya Natarajan's "No Onions nor Garlic"
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Mukhopadhyay, Averi – SAGE Open, 2019
University campuses serve as second homes for students, teachers, administrators, and parents coming from diverse regions, religions, classes, castes, and different genders. Interaction and camaraderie between the major characters in the academe develop. The bonhomie that exists between the stakeholders of the academe has its own rules, rules that…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Social Class, Gender Differences, Speech Communication
An Ethnography of Caste and Class at an Indian University: Creating Capital
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Pathania, Gaurav J.; Tierney, William G. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2018
Despite having outlawed the caste system and the concept of untouchability in 1947, caste identity remains a cornerstone of social, political and economic life in India. Like other social institutions, educational institutions are the reflection of caste prejudices and discrimination. The recent inclusion of lower castes through the reservation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Universities, Social Bias
Decolonial Human Rights Education: Changing the Terms and Content of Conversations on Human Rights
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Becker, Anne – Human Rights Education Review, 2021
The aim of this paper is to search for possibilities to change the terms and content of conversations on colonial/decolonial human rights education. The content of conversations consists of what we know about human rights. The terms of conversations are the principles, assumptions, and rules of knowing in human rights education. The terms and…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Course Content, Teaching Methods, Ethnocentrism
Student Co-Inquirers: The Challenges and Benefits of Inclusive Research
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Welikala, Thushari; Atkin, Chris – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2014
This article focuses on the process of conducting a research project which explored the university student experience across three different geopolitical contexts using students studying at an English university as co-inquirers. The project sample included students at different stages of their university experience (undergraduate, postgraduate and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Experience, Student Participation
American Students Abroad Can't Be "Global Citizens"
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Zemach-Bersin, Talya – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
A student shares experiences of her semester-long Tibetan-studies program in India, Nepal, and Tibet. Informed by both home university and program provider that by going abroad and immersing herself in a foreign culture, she would become a "global citizen," she was encouraged to "act like the locals," "be a resident,"…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Culture, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad