The Indian Metamorphosis: Essays on Its Enlightenment, Education, and Society

ISBN-13: 9789811307966 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 226 str.

Arup Maharatna

Spis treści

Part 1: India as its own Making.- Chapter 1: Indian Metamorphosis.- Chapter 2: India’s Costly Evasion from ‘Enlightenment’ Ideas and Values.- Chapter 3: India’s Educational Thinking and Aims, and School Curriculum: A Critical Look.- Part 2: Global Educational Crisis and Endangered Future.- Chapter 4: ‘Invasion’ of Neo-Liberal Economic Thinking into Educational Universe: A Civilizational Casualty?.- Chapter 5: Global Crisis in Higher Education: Is Merit Being Trampled by Marketing and Money?.

O autorze

Arup Maharatna has been a Professor at the University of Burdwan, the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics and the BITS-Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India, and has academic qualifications in both Economics and Population Studies. After obtaining a degree in Economics from Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, Prof. Maharatna completed a master’s and Ph.D. in Demography at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has also been a Bell Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University. He has authored three books, of which the first two are published by Oxford University Press and the other by Springer India. Maharatna is currently engaged in research on the role and ramifications of educational philosophy and school curricula around the globe, with special reference to South Asia.