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Hanaoka, Mimi – History of Education Quarterly, 2022
Syed Ross Masood (1889-1937), grandson of the Muslim modernist Syed Ahmad Khan and former principal of Osmania University, traveled in 1922 from India to Japan as Director of Public Instruction for Hyderabad to assess Japan's educational system. In Japan and Its Educational System, a report published in 1923, Masood concluded that education had…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Models, Western Civilization, Economic Development
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Preeti – History of Education, 2022
Agricultural improvement was a vital aspect of the 'development scheme' of the British Government in India as agriculture was the most revenue-generating industry in Bihar. From the first Famine Commission Report of 1880, there was a set agenda to improve agriculture through education. This was to be achieved through importing western science and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational History, Rural Areas, Power Structure
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Vaidya, Sheila – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2010
The focus of this paper is on the current developments in science education occurring in the posthumously built Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education in Mumbai and to offer context for various indigenous developments that are shaping science education in India today. In this paper, I describe the story of Homi Bhabha and his rich legacy of…
Descriptors: Nuclear Energy, Foreign Countries, Science Education, Educational History