Synergising Educational Concerns and Social Needs
Editor : Pankaj Arora, Saroj Sharma, Yukti Sharma
Publisher: Macmillan Education
Publication Year : 2021
Price : 2300
About the Book
The book is an anthology of papers based on various ideas and deliberations shared during a Seminar-cum-National Dialogue around the themes Education, Skill and Employment and Access, Equality and Quality in Higher Education amongst teacher educators, policy planners and academic administrators, representing various apex organisations and universities from different states.
The three units focus on a theme respectively that attempts to bring certain social issues and concerns in interface with contemporary ideas of education.
The book offers an array of concepts, sharing, arguments and discussions that hopefully ignites the readers towards revisioning the Indian education system in synergy with the social concerns!
About the Editors
Pankaj Arora has been serving in the Department of Education (CIE), University of Delhi for around 23 years. He is also serving as Director, Institute of Life Long Learning, University of Delhi. He has authored numerous articles, and presented research papers in various national and international conferences.
Saroj Sharma is a senior faculty member, University School of Education, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. Presently, she is on deputation as Chairman, National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS). She has been the first Dean of the University School of Education.
Yukti Sharma is faculty at the Department of Education and Academic Secretary at the Institute of Lifelong Learning, University of Delhi. She is involved in teaching and guiding research in the area of inclusive education and science education at the department and has conducted several research projects while also presenting papers in national and international conferences.
About the Author
Braj Bihari Kumar, an educationist, eminent scholar and prolific writer was the Chairman, ICSSR, New Delhi and former Governing Body Member of the Science Council of Asia, Tokyo, Japan.
About the Author
Braj Bihari Kumar, an educationist, eminent scholar and prolific writer was the Chairman, ICSSR, New Delhi and former Governing Body Member of the Science Council of Asia, Tokyo, Japan.
About the Author
Braj Bihari Kumar, an educationist, eminent scholar and prolific writer was the Chairman, ICSSR, New Delhi and former Governing Body Member of the Science Council of Asia, Tokyo, Japan.
| Contents | |
|---|---|
| Foreword | |
| Preamble | |
| Introduction to the Book | |
| About the Editors |
| UNIT I | |
|---|---|
| Education, Skill and Employment | |
| 1. | Skill-based Education and Employment: Initiatives in Higher Education in Gujurat R C Patel & Deepika Rajawat |
| 2. | Creative Thinking in Education: A 21st Century Skill Yukti Sharma |
| 3. | Multi-literacy: A 21st Century Skill required for Sustenance of the Next Generation Haneet Gandhi |
| 4. | Education, Skills and Employment - Exploring the Presence of Children with Special Needs (CWSN) Bharti |
| 5. | An Analysis of Education, Skills and Employment among the Scheduled Tribes in India Ramanand Pandey & Reetinder Kaur Chowdhary |
| 6. | Life Skills Education for Skill Development among Youth Jagpreet Kaur |
| 7. | Education and Skill Development: Need of the Hour Indu Sharma |
| 8. | Education, Skills and Employment Suman Nehra |
| UNIT II | |
|---|---|
| Teacher Education: Issues and Concerns | |
| 1. | भारतीय शिक्षक - शिक्षा की चिंताएं और चिंतन Usha Sharma |
| 2. | Teacher Education in the Private Sector: Some Quality Concerns Geetika Datta |
| 3. | Teachers as a Critical Pedagogue Pankaj Arora & Bhageshwari Sharma |
| UNIT III | |
|---|---|
| Access, Equality and Quality in Higher Education | |
| 1. | Access, Equality and Quality in Higher Education: Challenges and Future Prospects R P Pathak |
| 2. | Quality Education: Systemic Issues of Access, Retention and Success Taruna Choudhery Dhall |
| 3. | Higher Education in India: Issues related to Access, Equality and Quality Anjali Shokeen |
| 4. | 4. Changing Higher Education Scenario in India: Reflections on Some Emerging Challenges and Redressal Ranjan Kumar Sahoo |
| 5. | Indian Higher Education: Concerns of Access, Equality and Quality in 21st Century Madhuri Hooda |
| Notes on the Contributors | |
