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Banerjee, Suparna – Research in Dance Education, 2013
This article opens up questions around introducing Bharatanatyam, a form of Indian classical dance, to undergraduate learners within a North American university setting. The aim is to observe how the learners understood and received a particular cultural practice and to explore issues related to learning goals, curriculum content, approaches to…
Descriptors: Dance, Dance Education, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
Nachimuthu, K. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
We all watch Television, read newspapers and magazines, and we also go to see films, because of different means of communications. Because, beyond the physical requirements of food and shelter, man has now another fundamental need that is the need of communication. That communication will derive and cultivate out cultural heritages. Influences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Social Media, Mass Media
Kimuna, Sitawa R.; Djamba, Yanyi K.; Ciciurkaite, Gabriele; Cherukuri, Suvarna – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2013
This article assesses the prevalence and risk factors of domestic violence in India. The study uses the 2005-2006 India National Family Health Survey-III (NFHS-III) and focuses on the 69,484 ever-married women ages 15 to 49 from all regions, who were administered the domestic violence module. The results show that 31% of respondents experienced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Surveys, Family Violence, Incidence
Yakaboski, Tamara – NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 2013
Previous migration discourse views educational migration through narrowly defined push-pull forces, which ignores overseas graduate education as a path for maneuvering through restrictive gendered and cultural experiences. The purpose of this exploratory research is to expand migration research and view women's migration decisions as employing…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Females, Indians
Schwarz, Beate; Mayer, Boris; Trommsdorff, Gisela; Ben-Arieh, Asher; Friedlmeier, Mihaela; Lubiewska, Katarzyna; Mishra, Ramesh; Peltzer, Karl – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2012
This study investigated whether the associations between (a) the quality of the parent-child relationship and peer acceptance and (b) early adolescents' life satisfaction differed depending on the importance of family values in the respective culture. As part of the Value of Children Study, data from a subsample of N = 1,034 adolescents (58%…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Life Satisfaction, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents
Sahni, Rohini; Shankar, V. Kalyan – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
The scope of this paper spans from macro-level national and inter-state comparisons to more micro-level intra-state scrutiny of systemic fault-lines shaping the contours of girls' education in India. Post independence, national level indicators have been suggestive of greater gender parity. Yet, there is more to inclusiveness of girls in Indian…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Higher Education, Females, Foreign Countries
Schwabenland, Christina – Journal of Management Education, 2011
This article describes a self-reflexive exploration of five instances of encounters with indigenous managers that challenged my preconceptions about management. My focus is on the praxis of the moments in which these challenges occurred. I analyze these experiences to answer four questions: How did learning occur? What was that learning? How did…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
Dhar, Rajib Lochan – Education, Knowledge & Economy: A Journal for Education and Social Enterprise, 2011
This study tries to examine the causes which have led to the rise in the number of students pursuing an MBA in India. Qualitative methods have been used to collect the data. Data were collected via six focused group discussions with 60 postgraduate students associated with different management institutes in western India. In addition, data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Administration Education, Masters Programs, Graduate Students
Kishore, M. Thomas; Basu, Anirban – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2011
There is a need to identify early indicators in autism, particularly with reference to comorbid mental retardation and specific culture so that early intervention can be given. In this backdrop, this study aims to understand the early indicators of autism as perceived by the Indian mothers: the age of reporting and receiving diagnosis, and their…
Descriptors: Mothers, Mental Retardation, Autism, Clinical Diagnosis
Thakore-Dunlap, Ulash; Van Velsor, Patricia – Professional Counselor, 2014
The diversity of the U.S. school population speaks to a need to provide support for youth from various backgrounds. As a school-based mental health counselor, the first author observed that the South Asian immigrant students at her school did not utilize any of the counseling services provided. Because South Asians are typically collectivistic,…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Group Counseling, Females, Immigrants
Byker, Erik J. – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2014
The article's purpose is to compare case studies of computer technology use at two rural elementary schools across two international settings. This study uses the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) theory to guide this comparative investigation of how elementary school teachers and students in East Texas and South India construct meaning for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Elementary Schools, Rural Schools
Harrell, Melissa; Ussery, Emily; Greene-Cramer, Blanche; Ranjit, Nalini; Sharma, Shreela V. – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2015
Purpose: To examine the relationships between "westernization" and nutrition and physical activity behaviors among older adolescents in Delhi, India. These relations have not been explored, despite increasingly strong and pervasive socio-cultural influences from the West. Methods: Students (n=1818) in 8th and 10th grades in 4 Private…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Physical Activity Level, Correlation, Health Behavior
Murphy, Peter – Policy Futures in Education, 2012
Powerful nations have influential systems of higher education. The article explores the possible pattern of geopolitics in the twenty-first century, and the competing prospects of America and its rivals in higher education and research. Pressures on both the American and non-American worlds are evaluated, along with relative economic strengths,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Power Structure, Geography, Politics
Arnot, Madeleine; Jeffery, Roger; Casely-Hayford, Leslie; Noronha, Claire – Comparative Education, 2012
Transitions to adulthood are usually defined by markers such as leaving school, starting a first job, leaving the parental home, forming a first union, marrying and having a first child. Youth policy remains strongly influenced by these linear transitions, and by the metaphor of a "pathway" from school to work and adulthood, taking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth, Rural Areas, Females
Martin, Fran – Education 3-13, 2013
The English Geography National Curriculum encourages primary teachers to focus on similarities and differences when teaching distant places. The issues this raises are particularly acute when teaching geography in the context of the Global South. In this article I argue that comparisons based on object-based thinking can lead to views of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, National Curriculum, Elementary Education