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Education, Religion and Gender: The Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya in Punjab
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Bassi, Tripti – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2020
Schools are truly 'microcosms of society' since they reflect the larger dynamics of society. Women's position in society also got replicated in their low participation in education among other fields. This article contextualises women's education in the nineteenth-century Punjab. It briefly discusses approaches followed by various stakeholders…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Females, Educational History
A Role Model in Light of Values: Mahatma Gandhi
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Dündar, Hakan; Erdogan, Erdi; Hareket, Erdem – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
The non-violent, tolerant, pacifistic and humanistic manner of Mahatma Gandhi is a globally recognized fact. UNESCO's foundation of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development is one of the best examples that support this fact. In this study, it is aimed to present "Mahatma Gandhi", who is globally…
Descriptors: Role Models, Change Agents, Social Change, Social Justice
Globalization and the "Identity Remix" among Urban Adolescents in India
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Rao, Mrinalini A.; Berry, Ruhi; Gonsalves, Ayesha; Hastak, Yogita; Shah, Mukti; Roeser, Robert W. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2013
This study examined adolescents' perceptions of cultural change and identity development during an age of globalization in India. Analyses of data from 1497 Indian, urban, middle-class 12-15-year-olds (46% girls) revealed that these youth were aware of changes in their daily lives due to globalization and evaluated such changes in a pragmatic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Adolescents, Identification (Psychology)
Anthropological Backgrounds on Adult Education. CSLEA. Notes and Essays on Education for Adults, 57.
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
Oral Component in Literacy.
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Pattanayak, D. P. – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1979
The author draws attention to the closed network of social settings in India which have built-in devices to frustrate any advance for interview or conversation. He maintains that adult education does not mean teaching the mother tongue, but teaching a philosophy of change and structural reconstruction through the mother tongue. (Author/ CT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communication Problems, Futures (of Society), Literacy Education
Taboo Communication and Social Change: Family Planning in Asia, and Some Suggested Modifications in the Classical Diffusion Model.
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Rogers, Everett M. – 1972
Taboo communication is examined in relation to its distinctive characteristics and its significance in inhibiting social change involving birth control in Asian and other countries. Taboo communication tends to occur between very high homophilous individuals, which poses problems for communications research. Research is inhibited when researchers…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Education, Attitude Change, Change Agents