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Vallgarda, Karen A. A. – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2011
The article traces the fundamental incoherency that structured the Danish Missionary Society's work at a boarding school for low-caste "heathen" children in South India in the 1860s and 1870s. Through elaborate disciplinary methods, the missionaries set out to Christianize and civilize the Indian children's morality, social behaviour and…
Descriptors: Social Class, Boarding Schools, Indians, Foreign Countries
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Sreekanth, Y. – Education 3-13, 2009
Universalisation of elementary education is an important goal for a democratic and welfare state like India. In the post-reform period of 1990s, the rapid processes of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation have brought in a shift from caste to class divisions not only across society, but also even among schools catering to different…
Descriptors: Social Class, Socioeconomic Status, Bullying, Elementary Schools
Tax, Sol; And Others – 1968
Five papers from a 1967 interdisciplinary seminar sponsored by University College at Syracuse University and by the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults present insights and concepts from anthropology which have relevance for adult educators. The first paper gives a broad view of anthropology and its underlying modes of thought,…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Cultural Exchange, Lower Class, Non Western Civilization
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D'Cruz, Premilla – Qualitative Report, 2004
Though the continuum of care model has been adopted in HIV/AIDS intervention, there is little empirical work documenting the experiences of caregiving families. Addressing this gap, a study on family caregiving and care receiving was undertaken in Mumbai, India. In-depth interviews were conducted with seven seropositive caregivers, seven…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Caregivers, Foreign Countries, Program Development