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Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1921
Volume II of the Biennial Survey of Education, 1916-1918 includes the following chapters: (1) Education in Great Britain and Ireland (I. L. Kandel); (2) Education in parts of the British Empire: Educational Developments in the Dominion of Canada (Walter A. Montgomery), Public School System of Jamaica (Charles A. Asbury), Recent Progress of…
Descriptors: Jews, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Methods
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Shukla, Sureshachandra – Comparative Education, 1983
Proposes a typology for examining Indian educational thought and experiments: the British period and its legacy, basic education, elementary education, higher education, adult education and literacy, and other trends. Concludes the essential prototype of education as represented by the university and the formal school system has remained India's…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classification, Colonialism, Comparative Education
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Allender, Tim – History of Education, 2007
Postcolonial research has often assumed that colonial education fell victim to the forces of nationalism, like other areas of Raj governance in the early twentieth century. However, European-led education that aspired to reach the general population had already failed a generation earlier, at least in north India. This was after highly imaginative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Administrative Organization, Foreign Policy
Rutkowski, Edward, Ed. – Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society, 1989
The 18 papers of this conference were divided into five topics ranging from literacy to the history of progressive reform to history of education from an international perspective. Part 1 includes: "Isabella Graham and Joanna Bethune's Early American Experiments in Educating Illiterates" (L. Townsend); "The Dilemma of Equivalency:…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Armed Forces, Compulsory Education, Educational Change
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Swaminathan, Mina – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1996
Describes the history of early childhood education in India from the 1890s to the present. Presents current programs ranging from Integrated Child Development Services serving over 10 million children to small, innovative programs in local communities, noted for flexibility and responsiveness to local needs. Examines findings from innovative…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Programs, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
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Viruru, Radhika; Cannella, Gaile S. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1997
This case study shows that young children in a multilingual Indian preschool are functioning in an environment constructed out of their community's needs and values. The school did not focus on child development but stressed memorization and free expression and functioned consistently within the Indian historical, societal, and value context. No…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community, Context Effect, Cultural Influences
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Verma, Amita – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1994
Provides a history of early childhood care and education in pre- and postindependent India. Outlines current education schemes and examines the contribution of research to this area, suggesting that the current interaction between researcher and policymaker may result in more concrete promotion of early childhood programs. (TJQ)
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Caregivers, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Miles, M. – 1997
This monograph uses brief excerpts from many sources to document the history of the education and care of individuals with disabilities in India, primarily in the 19th century. An introduction describes the author's methodology in compiling and annotating the excerpts, which are listed alphabetically by locality in India. Under each locality,…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Disabilities, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kaur, Baljit – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2004
Contrary to the widely accepted belief that no early childhood education provision was evident until the twentieth century, archives date the advent of infant schools in India to the 1830s in Bengal, contemporaneous with developments in England. The Church Missionary Society's infant schools aimed to educate children (and women) from the lower…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Early Childhood Education, Educational History
Fugitt, Glenn V., Ed. – 1980
Published in order to further a better understanding of how work in the field of rural sociology is carried on in various places, the six papers describe pedagogical and research activities relating to the sociological concern for rural people in West Africa, Brazil, Iran, the Middle East, Japan, and India. Each paper describes the evolution of…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Area Studies, Educational History, Foreign Countries
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Sharma, Adarsh; Sen, Rekha Sharma; Gulati, Renu – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2008
The critical importance of the early childhood years and the rights perspective to human development has made policy and programming for early childhood development an imperative for every nation. In India, poverty, changing economic and social structures resulting in the breakdown of traditional coping mechanisms and family care systems, and the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Young Children
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Syracuse University Library Associates Courier, 1991
This issue of the biannual "Syracuse University Library Associate Courier" is devoted to covering the world famous collections of adult and continuing education materials held by the Syracuse University Library. It contains five articles: "Laubach in India: 1935-1970" (S. Y. Shah) describes missionary and founder of Laubach…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Reading Programs, Continuing Education, Educational History
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Whitehead, Clive – Education Research and Perspectives, 2004
It was the Indian political leader G. K. Gokhale who described "The Report of the Indian Education Commission 1882-83" as "one of the weightiest and most interesting documents ever published in India." Long recognized as one of the most informative documents about the history of nineteenth century education in British India it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Reports, Conflict
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Swaminathan, Mina – International Journal of Early Years Education, 1994
Examines the history and current status of early childhood teacher training in India. Describes the Bal Sevika Training program, launched in 1961, and the Integrated Child Development Services program, instituted in 1975 to provide a wide range of educational and nutritional services to preschool children and their families. (MDM)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational History, Educational Innovation, Family Programs
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Raina, Vijay K.; Dhand, Harry – Social Studies, 2000
Provides background information on India's educational system. Focuses on history teaching in India after independence from British rule. Addresses the role of textbooks in the curriculum and types of instructional strategies. Considers some critical issues in the teaching of history in Indian schools. (CMK)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Developing Nations, Educational Environment, Educational History
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