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Recognizing the need to ensure education for all especially in a developing nation like India, Emerging Trends in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices provides critical insights in the field of Education to achieve this goal. The essays in this volume present a comparative perspective of national and global education policies. It is useful for policy makers and the concepts and practices discussed wil be of help to students and scholars of sociology and educational studies.
This is the first comprehensive research work on the origin and development of the Politics of Bangladesh and the first systematic study on Awami League under the inspiring leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. It analyses the political factors and processes that operated in that country until the first-martial law-regime which came to power in 1958 and the subsequent emergence of Bangladesh as a sovereign independent state. This was extremely a crucial period when the East Bengali attitude towards the central government and West Pakistan crystallised. The nature and character of the Awami League leadership, a critical analysis of the socio-economic programmes of the party and how far the par...
The book attempts to study the Congress Forum for Socialist Action as a pressure group within the Congress party between mid 1962 and early 1973. It has also touched upon the revival of the CFSA in 1977 and 1987. Explaining how non-implementation of party policies and programmes, authoritative attitude of the party elite towards the rank and file, and the emergence of ideological differences among them led to the formation of the pressure group. The structure, process and functions of the pressure group have also been analysed. The forum reiterated its faith in defining the concept of socialism, its basic objective being to emphasize the establishment of socialistic society in the country. The forum achieved a good success as far as controlling monopolistic tendencies and expansion of public enterprise were concerned.
The study reveals that there is no relationship between caste and factional orientation in the politics of Congress factionalism. It discusses factionalism in Congress party, Congress factionalism in Kerala, social base of factionalism. (The book is a serious empirical study of factionalism in Kerala).
Quality, Access and Social Justice in Higher Education highlights the need to address the ground realities of educational policies and practices in India and is useful for scholars and practitioners in the fields of sociology and education, and policymaker. It discusses quality of education, the ease of access to education, and its spread across diverse social groups and possible resolutions to help shape effective educational policies.
Papers presented at the International Seminar on Democratic and Secular Education, held at Thiruvananthapuram during 4-6 December 2008.