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Download full textSingh, Shashi; Singh, Ajay; Singh, Kiran – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
Higher education today is being viewed as a tool to achieve prosperity and high living standards. It is thus looked upon as a service to the society and a powerful weapon to change the society for its betterment. Motivation plays a crucial role in learning. Motivation energizes the behavior of the individual. It also directs the behavior towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Traditional Schools, Rural Education
Direct linkDeBoer, Jennifer – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
This paper gathers and analyzes self-reported user behavior data for public computers installed in varied neighborhoods in India to explore the relationship between environmental factors such as urbanicity and reported usage behaviors. There is evidence of large differences in usage behavior between urban and non-urban sites. Children at urban…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Neighborhoods, Behavior Patterns, Computers
Inchani, Lisa R.; Lai, Dejian – Social Indicators Research, 2008
Utilizing data from the Census of India, this study compared child sex ratio in rural and urban regions of India and analyzed whether the child sex ratio was associated with mother's education level. The child sex ratios in the rural and urban regions throughout India were analyzed using the two-sample and paired Student's t-test. Further, the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Urban Areas, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedMishra, Srijit – Social Indicators Research, 2005
Triplot is used to portray the three-dimensional concepts--literate, proximate illiterate and secluded illiterate. Pictographic portrayal complemented with a method proposed to calculate distance between situations enhances comparison. Illustration with Indian data explains change over time, rural-urban divide, and social gap.
Descriptors: Illiteracy, Rural Urban Differences, Social Differences
Raghavan, G. N. S. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1980
Hindrances encountered in mass media programing in developing nations are enumerated, including local language variations, irrelevance and conflict of interest between directing programs to urban well-to-do or rural poor. Examples are from India's experiences with mass media. It is suggested that the government implement policies for using the…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Dewey, Susan – Ethnography and Education, 2006
Utilizing a framework which employs symbolic capital and post-colonial analysis, this paper examines the cultural meanings of English-language education at Cathedral and John Connon School in Bombay, India. The central question this article seeks to address is how power is replicated through education and, more specifically, the ways in which…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Power Structure
