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In Search of Saraswati: The Ambivalence of the Indian Academic

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Altbach, Philip G. – Higher Education, 1977

The working conditions, attitudes, and organizational milieu of college teachers in India are examined based on a case study of the University of Bombay. Focus is on the ambivalent role of the college teacher as an individual with an inadequate income, declining social status, but the pretentions of professionalism. (Author/LBH)

Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Faculty, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries

Education in South Asia: A Select Annotated Bibliography. Garland Reference Library of Social Science, Volume 390. Reference Books in International Education, Volume 3.

Altbach, Philip G.; Saldanha, Denzil; Weiler, Jeanne – 1987

This bibliography comprises 1,419 items arranged in 35 chapters. About 40 percent of the listings include annotations. The bibliography includes education materials in English mainly for the period from 1960 to 1985. In a few instances, important items published earlier are listed. The volume covers the major South Asian nations of Bangladesh,…

Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Asian Studies, Comparative Education, Developing Nations