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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
Philip, Rachel – Science & Education, 2022
India's National Science Talent Search (NSTS) examination (1963 to 1976) was imagined and implemented by some top scientists of the period. It aimed to identify "talented" secondary school students with an aptitude for science and mathematics. Selected students attended undergraduate summer schools, did research in special labs during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, National Programs, Educational History
Goswami, Rahul – International Journal for Transformative Research, 2022
In Nagaland, a state in India's North-East region, the morung is a tribal institution that serves as an educational portal through which all young men passed as the means of learning their living heritage. Described by anthropological accounts, for a century until the 1950s, as a 'dormitory' for boys and young men, it is in fact much more. It is a…
Descriptors: Tribes, Foreign Countries, Males, Dormitories
Dasgupta, Sanjukta – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2020
Rabindranath Tagore (1861--1941) is primarily known worldwide as the first Asian poet to receive the Nobel Prize in literature, in 1913. He lived and died in colonial India as a British subject. However, any engagement with studies of Tagore would reveal that, despite his outstanding achievements in creative writing and music, he deserves to be…
Descriptors: Poets, Foreign Policy, Foreign Countries, Institutional Mission
Ajmera, Param S. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines the writings and experiences of five Indian international students in the United States during late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By drawing attention to these students, I attend to the ways in which notions of freedom, progress, and inclusivity associated with American higher education, and liberalism more…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Indians, Power Structure, Nationalism
Kantawala, Ami – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2020
This article brings the work of cultural theorist Mieke Bal and historian Hayden White into a conversation, inviting the reader to consider framing, re-framing, and un-framing as historiographical dispositions. The concept of framing was used as a substitute for context in cultural analysis. The article argues that the concept of framing could be…
Descriptors: History, Imagination, Context Effect, Literature
Batra, Poonam – Prospects, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has made visible the sharp economic, health, caste-based, gender, and educational inequalities that the disadvantaged face in India. Curriculum is ordinarily viewed as a tool for regulating and adapting modern educational systems to society's needs and trends. But most governments have been unwilling to rethink post-pandemic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pandemics, Futures (of Society), Educational Change
Tschurenev, Jana – Comparative Education, 2021
This article discusses the 'Indianisation', 'nationalisation', and 'ruralisation' of the Montessori method in India at the eve, and in the aftermath of the country's political independence (1947). From 1914 onwards, Indian nationalists received Montessori's ideas through publications, the networks of the new education movement, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Montessori Method, Educational History, Rural Education
Jambunathan, Saigeetha; Jayaraman, J. D.; Adesanya, Regina – Education 3-13, 2022
The purpose of this study is to compare the beliefs about ethics and ethical practices among early childhood teachers in India and the USA. Ninety-one teachers completed the Teacher's Beliefs about Ethics and Ethical Practices Survey (India = 52, US = 39). The survey comprised of 15 Likert-type statements in four areas: Ethical responsibilities to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beliefs, Ethics, Teacher Attitudes
Mukherjee, Sumita – History of Education, 2022
Indian students in Britain before the Second World War were a sizeable social group who exerted noticeable influence on Indian nationalism and on British institutions and society. The politics of race and empire were mediated through British schools and universities in this period with consequences for Indian students, and their peers. This…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Race, Indians, Racism
Hayhoe, Ruth – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2019
The paper begins with a brief vignette of Angkor Wat in Cambodia as a great center of learning, and then highlights the traditions of Indian monastic institutions which had deeply influenced its development. It then turns the main features of the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism, showing how they created a space for women's scholarship to flourish.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theological Education, Research Universities, Global Approach
Srivastava, Aaditya Ranjan; Bajpai, Shrish; Khare, Sushant – Comparative Professional Pedagogy, 2018
Historical overview of ceramic development has been provided in the paper. It has been stated that the trail of ceramics has been rooted in Indus valley civilization. Advancement of materials leads to afflux of development in the fields of science and technology. Present paper deals with the realm of Ceramic Engineering, mainly focuses on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Ceramics, Educational History
Sharma, Runumi; Aswal, Mamta – Issues and Ideas in Education, 2021
Bertrand Russell's educational thoughts significantly deal with reforming education for school going children and he also supported pre-primary education. He favored early childhood education for physical, intellectual and character development. His emphasis on character development of a child shows the significance of early years of life for…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Change, Preschool Education, Early Childhood Education
Chandra, Gautam; Mishra, Veerendra Kumar; Pranjali – History of Education, 2018
In light of the focus placed on English education by the colonial government, and the petition signed by 70,000 local inhabitants of the Madras Presidency, Lord John Elphinstone, the Governor, made efforts to disseminate English education during his governorship (1837-1842). Spurred on by the petition, Elphinstone wrote two fundamental educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Development, High Schools
Remy Y. S. Low Ed.; Suzanne Egan Ed.; Amani Bell Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2023
This open access book offers a unique and refreshing view on working with social theory in higher education. Using engaging first-person accounts coupled with critical intellectual analysis, the authors demonstrate how theory is grappled with as part of an ongoing practice rather than a momentary disembodied encounter. In a structure that creates…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Decolonization