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Academic Leadership Enhancing School Effectiveness

Academic Leadership Enhancing School Effectiveness

This book provides contemporary knowledge on school effectiveness and proposes strategic interventions for enhancing it. It focuses on improving academic leadership for enhancing the effectiveness of schools and discusses how national education policies are helpful in providing a vision towards improving school effectiveness. It highlights the role of teachers as academic leaders in the implementation of policy recommendations at school and classroom levels. It offers methods and mechanisms for academic leaders to measure the learning of students for school assessment. The author also discusses how academic leadership involves creating a vision and mission based on science and research data for the organisation inspiring innovation and creative ideas developing teamwork and a safe environment for staff to express their views. While providing an understanding of school as an organization the volume outlines its management functions such as processes and quality of planning management of curriculum learner evaluation institutional networks and human resource management among others. The volume is a guidebook for training and capacity building for school-level practitioners and leaders in education management. Embedded with real-life cases and episodes this volume will be of interest to teachers students and practitioners of education management and education management. It will also be useful for academicians educationalists practitioners management professionals educational leaders and policymakers. | Academic Leadership Enhancing School Effectiveness

GBP 29.99
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The Place of Humanities in Our Universities

The Place of Humanities in Our Universities

This volume examines the critical role of the humanities in universities in India and attempts to redefine its place meaning and function in education. Bringing together distinguished scholars in the country it debates the status and predicament of the humanities in the academic programmes within universities. The issues raised here touch upon the entire gamut of problems that a university faces in finding an adequate rightful and wholesome place for the humanities in its academic curriculum. It discusses the difficulties in the specific identity of disciplines classed under the humanities the powerful reach of the sciences and technological inroads in the teaching and practice of all disciplines the relative academic balancing of disciplines in different universities in India the culture value and the idea of the university digitisation of the humanities and online access and their specific impact on research in the concerned disciplines. The volume also presents an instructive debate on the so-called appropriation of traditional social science concerns by other departments. This book will interest those in education humanities and social sciences governance and public policy and South Asian studies. | The Place of Humanities in Our Universities

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Economic and Environmental Cost of Traffic Congestion in India

Economic and Environmental Cost of Traffic Congestion in India

This book explores one of the most prevailing problems of the contemporary urban world i. e. traffic congestion and its economic environmental and health implications. Generally viewed as an urban menace the problem of traffic congestion has huge economic implications which are often overlooked by urban planners. This book examines and quantifies the costs and adverse consequences and of traffic congestion which include emissions loss of productive hours fuel wastage and the adverse effects on the health of commuters among others. It provides a comprehensive and scientific understanding of the underlying problems of traffic gridlocks by analyzing empirical evidence from Bengaluru a city in South India. It also offers solutions and highlights innovative measures that draw from both economic and engineering perspectives to counter and reduce the tangible and intangible costs of traffic conjestion. This book will be of interest to both academic and non-academic readers of economics environmental economics and econometrics transport economics urban planning transport geography as well as planners and policy makers. | Economic and Environmental Cost of Traffic Congestion in India

GBP 130.00
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Undernutrition and Public Policy in India Investing in the future

Undernutrition and Public Policy in India Investing in the future

Despite substantial economic growth India has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is home to almost 40 per cent of the world’s stunted children. This volume assesses the status and causes of undernutrition in the country and examines the effectiveness of policies designed to address undernutrition. The essays tackle wide-ranging themes and challenging issues including nutrition; water sanitation and hygiene (WASH); maternal neonatal and child health; Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS); Public Distribution System (PDS); crop procurement; and National Food Security Act 2013. With contributions from leading academic researchers policymakers as well as civil society representatives this volume will be indispensable to scholars teachers and students of public policy development economics development sociology and Indian economy. It will also be useful to government institutions think tanks and NGOs. | Undernutrition and Public Policy in India Investing in the future

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Social Scientist in South Asia Personal Narratives Social Forces and Negotiations

Social Scientist in South Asia Personal Narratives Social Forces and Negotiations

This book is a collection of autobiographical narratives by leading social scientists working across South Asia. It explores the linkages between their personal experiences and academic pursuits and analyzes how personal political and professional choices shape knowledge production and affect social transformation. The narratives revisit long-standing debates on objectivity subjectivity self and other and attempt to collapse the binaries that have informed the social sciences until now. Highlighting the state of research and pedagogy in the social sciences in the region the book questions the conventional understanding of the task of the social scientist and in doing so blurs the distinction between theory research pedagogy and activism. A unique and compelling contribution this volume will be indispensable to students and researchers of sociology anthropology history creative writing education politics biography studies and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to general readers. | Social Scientist in South Asia Personal Narratives Social Forces and Negotiations

GBP 38.99
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Service-Learning Theory and Practice

Service-Learning Theory and Practice

This book examines key concepts principles and applications of the service-learning approach. Service-learning is a community-based educational approach to improve a student’s academic personal leadership civic and professional development through civic engagement. Unlike other traditional approaches to education service-learning students can use their classroom-based knowledge and skills in a real-life context in collaboration with community organisations and residents. This volume explores the theory research and practices of how service-learning is understood implemented and evaluated in different contexts. It provides essential guidelines to implement and integrate service-learning at educational institutions through extensive discussions on the principles philosophical challenges opportunities and its applications. Key themes include: • Theory of service-learning • Concept of service-learning • Challenges to service-learning • Applications of service-learning • Service-learning as professional development • Service-learning as communication Accessibly written this book would be of interest to faculty students community organisations and researchers working in the areas of education pedagogy sociology and social work. | Service-Learning Theory and Practice

GBP 130.00
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Digital India and the Poor Policy Technology and Society

Digital India and the Poor Policy Technology and Society

Digital India and The Poor examines how the poor are evoked in contemporary Indian political discourse. It studies the ways in which the disadvantaged are accounted for in the increasingly digitised political economy commercial and public policy media and academic research. This book: Interrogates the category of the poor in India and how they have come to be classified in economic and policy documents over the past few decades Explores the influential digital education technology ‘experiments’ conducted in Indian slums from the late 1990s now popularly known as the ‘hole-in-the-wall experiments’ Discusses financial inclusion initiatives predominantly as they converged between 2014 and 2017 such as the Jan Dhan Yojana the Aadhaar Project and the banknote demonetisation Presents an in-depth study of the bearing of technology on domestic employment in India The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian studies politics political science and sociology technology studies linguistics and development studies. | Digital India and the Poor Policy Technology and Society

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Mapping Scientific Method Disciplinary Narrations

Mapping Scientific Method Disciplinary Narrations

This volume explores how the scientific method enters and determines the dominant methodologies of various modern academic disciplines. It highlights the ways in which practitioners from different disciplinary backgrounds –– the humanities the natural sciences and the social sciences –– engage with the scientific method in their own disciplines. The book maps the discourse (within each of the disciplines) that critiques the scientific method from different social locations in order to argue for more complex and nuanced approaches in methodology. It also investigates the connections between the method and the structures of power and domination which exist within these disciplines. In the process it offers a new way of thinking about the philosophy of the scientific method. Part of the Science and Technology Studies series this volume is the first of its kind in the South Asian context to debate scientific methods and address questions by scholars based in the global south. It will be useful to students and practitioners of science humanities social sciences philosophy of science and philosophy of social science. Research scholars from these disciplines especially those engaging in interdisciplinary research will also benefit from this volume. | Mapping Scientific Method Disciplinary Narrations

GBP 130.00
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Spaces and Places in Western India Formations and Delineations

Spaces and Places in Western India Formations and Delineations

This book studies places and spaces in Western India both as geographical locations and as imagined constructs. It uncovers the rich history of the region from the perspective of places of pilgrimage commerce community expression and indigeneity. The volume examines how spaces are intrinsically connected to the lived experiences of people. It explores how spaces in Western India have been constructed over time and how these are reflected in both historical and contemporary settings – in the art architecture political movements and in identity formation. The rich examples explored in this volume include sites of Bhakti and Sufi literature Maharashtrian-Sikh identity Mahanubhav pilgrimage monetary practices of the Peshwas and the internet as an emancipatory space for the Dalit youth in Maharashtra. The chapters in this book establish and affirm the forever evolving cultural topography of Western India. Taking a multidimensional approach this book widens the scope of academic discussions on the theme of space and place. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of history cultural studies geography the humanities city studies and sociology. | Spaces and Places in Western India Formations and Delineations

GBP 36.99
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Learning without Burden Where are We a Quarter Century after the Yash Pal Committee Report

Learning without Burden Where are We a Quarter Century after the Yash Pal Committee Report

This book looks at education reforms planning and policy through an exploration of the Yash Pal Committee report (1993) in India which made recommendations to improve the quality of learning while reducing cognitive burden on students. It analyses the wide-ranging impact the report had on curriculum pedagogy teacher education reforms and the national policy on education. The book examines the legacy of the report tracing the various deliberations and critical engagements with issues around literacy language and mathematics learning curriculum reforms and classroom practices assessment and evaluation. It reviews contemporary developments in research on learning in diverse disciplines and languages through the lens of the recommendations made by the Learning without Burden report while engaging with challenges and systemic issues which limit inclusivity and access to quality education. Drawing on extensive research and first-hand academic and teaching experience this book will attract attention and interest of students and researchers of educational policy and analysis linguistics sociology and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to policy makers think tanks and civil society organisations. | Learning without Burden Where are We a Quarter Century after the Yash Pal Committee Report

GBP 130.00
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Agricultural Sector in India Accelerating Growth and Enhancing Competitiveness

Agricultural Sector in India Accelerating Growth and Enhancing Competitiveness

This book presents a comprehensive overview of a range of concepts methods strategies and policies in agriculture and natural resource management environmental economics production economics and sustainable agricultural development. It explores effective analytical tools and science innovations and management solutions to enhance yields manage the supply chain strengthen institutional mechanisms and service and support systems for farmers. It highlights the importance of enabling policies which can benefit farmers resulting in cost-efficient and quality-improving farm practices increased profits and income for farmers and better management of natural resources. The essays in the book honour the academic teaching and research contributions of Professor R. Ramanna in the field of agricultural economics. They also address issues which are relevant to the growing research in sustainable agricultural development and natural resource management including the use of new concepts tools analyses technologies innovations and policy strategies modelled in local contexts that can easily be scaled and applied to similar contexts elsewhere. This book will be of interest and use to students researchers practitioners and policymakers working in varied fields of agricultural economics sustainable development public policy rural sociology political economy economics of innovation institutional economics and industrial organisation. | Agricultural Sector in India Accelerating Growth and Enhancing Competitiveness

GBP 130.00
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Public Administration in the 21st Century A Global South Perspective

Public Administration in the 21st Century A Global South Perspective

Public Administration has experienced a fundamental rethinking of its basic objectives concepts and theories during the 21st century. This book examines the transformations happening in global societies the economy and in politics to trace the trajectory of public administration as an academic discipline as well as being a focus of social science research. It presents a reassessment of governance in heterogenous developing countries that goes beyond the traditional Weberian bureaucratic model toward new models of organization and management informed by their legal constitutional economic and political needs aspirations and ground realities. This is especially important in relation to the marginalized sections of society that primarily rely on citizen entitlements through public service delivery systems. The author looks at widening the range and scope of public administrative agencies with the gradual cooperation of multiple actors such as the civil society people at large and even the private sector in a partnering role. The author revisits the discipline to tackle intellectual dilemmas that current governance theories and practices are confronting or will have to confront in future administrative situations. There will be key discussions on mandates and challenges for the state regarding the rising South; this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of politics especially governance and public policy sociology and development studies. It will also be of interest to bureaucrats NGOs and government officials. | Public Administration in the 21st Century A Global South Perspective

GBP 36.99
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Selected Writings of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik Dalit Literature from Bangla

Selected Writings of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik Dalit Literature from Bangla

Shyamal Kumar Pramanik is one of the most powerful writers of the Bangla Dalit literary movement. His evocative fictional world throws into relief the lives of the downtrodden in in contemporary India. This volume brings his fiction to a new readership by presenting English translations of a selection of his most powerful stories. This book is part of the Voices from the Margins series which seeks to enhance the visibility of literary texts and traditions from various Indian languages and also to bring Dalit literature to the center stage. Pramanik focuses extensively on lives and lifestyles of the people in the Sundarbans the largest mangrove forest in the world and an ecologically fragile zone. Drawn from personal experience many of these stories paint in vivid colors the deprivations that define life in this part of the world. His fiction highlights the workings of caste. . The translations in this anthology are buttressed by an interview with the writer which includes his reflections on his life society and his writings opening up new possibilities of understanding his work in its larger social context. The book also creates an academic framework within which Pramanik’s fiction can be read and critically analyzed. This critical edition will be of interest to students and researchers of comparative literature South Asian literature and culture modern Indian literature Dalit studies culture history and sociology. | Selected Writings of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik Dalit Literature from Bangla

GBP 130.00
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Retelling Time Alternative Temporalities from Premodern South Asia

Retelling Time Alternative Temporalities from Premodern South Asia

Retelling Time challenges the hegemony of colonial modernity over academic disciplines and over ways in which we think about something as fundamental as time. It reclaims a bouquet of alternative practices of time from premodern South Asia which stem from worldviews that have been marginalized. These practices relate to a range of classical and vernacular genres including alaṃkāra theravāda yoga rāmakathā tasawwuf āyāraṃga purāṇa trikā-tantra navya-nyāya pratyabhijñā carita kūṭīyāṭṭam and maṅgala kāvya. These represent multiple languages such as Sanskrit Persian Pali Prakrit Awadhi Malayalam Kannada and Bengali as well as diverse streams from Hinduism Jainism Buddhism and Sufi Islam to logic yoga tantra theatre and poetics. Retelling Time questions the modern Eurocentric belief in an empty homogenous abbreviated secular and irreversible time. It proposes instead that that premodern South Asia invested time with cultural function and value which ranged from the contingent to the transcendent the quotidian to the cosmic the fleeting to the eternal and the social to the spiritual. Accordingly time was reworked - stretched melded collapsed recursed rolled over and even extinguished. Sacred social aesthetic scientific fictional historical and performative South Asian traditions are seen here in conversation with one other mediated by an ethical paradigm. Their collective challenge is to decolonize our ways of knowing and being. This book will be of interest to scholars of South Asian history philosophy of history anthropology literature Sanskrit post colonial studies cultural studies studies of temporality and of the Global South. | Retelling Time Alternative Temporalities from Premodern South Asia

GBP 38.99
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The History and Philosophy of Science An Indian Perspective

The History and Philosophy of Science An Indian Perspective

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the history and evolution of the major disciplines of science which include the basic sciences bioscience natural sciences and medical science with special emphasis on the Indian perspective. While academic interest shown in the history and philosophy of science dates back to several centuries serious scholarship on how the sciences and the society interact and influence each other can only be dated back to the twentieth century. This volume explores the ethical and moral issues related to social values along with the controversies that arise in relation to the discourse of science from the philosophical perspectives. The book sheds light on themes that have proved to have a significant and overwhelming influence on present-day civilisation. It takes the reader through a journey on how the sciences have developed and have been discussed to explore key themes like the colonial influences on science; how key scientific ideas have developed from Aristotle to Newton; history of ancient Indian mathematics; agency representation deviance with regard to the human body in science; bioethics; mental health psychology and the sciences; setting up of the first teaching departments for subjects such as medicine ecology and physiology in India; recent research in chemical technology; and even the legacy of ancient Indian scientific discoveries. A part of the Contemporary Issues in Social Science Research series this interdisciplinary work will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy modern history sociology of medicine physical sciences bioscience chemistry and medical sciences. It will be of interest to the general reader also. | The History and Philosophy of Science An Indian Perspective

GBP 34.99
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Shooting Terror Terrorism in Hindi Films

Shooting Terror Terrorism in Hindi Films

Shooting Terror highlights the disturbing immediacy of acts of terror and how cinema responds to them. It follows the changing representations of terrorism in Hindi cinema by fielding in-depth textual analyses of films such as Roja Maachis Black Friday Tere Bin Laden Uri: The Surgical Strike among others. It traces how terror and the terrorist have come to be viewed in the Indian cultural space and lays the grounds for a multivalent perspectival reading of cinema and terrorism. Moving from the threat of terror condensed in the Mogambo-esque villain in Mr. India to the showcasing of terror and the terrorist in their lived-in realities in Haider and Shahid the book explores the fraught connections between terror and the themes of devastation and trauma; between terror and the urban cityscape. It also seeks to highlight the place of humour and satire in films on terrorism and the presence of the reactionary far right in these films. One of the first books to present a composite picture of terrorism in contemporary Hindi cinema this volume will be of interest to researchers and academics of cultural studies media and film studies and the study of sociopsychological violence in media and culture. | Shooting Terror Terrorism in Hindi Films

GBP 38.99
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India's Pakistan Policy How Think Tanks Are Shaping Foreign Relations

India's Pakistan Policy How Think Tanks Are Shaping Foreign Relations

This book critically examines the role of think tanks as foreign policy actors. It looks at the origins and development of foreign policy think tanks in India and their changing relevance and position as agents within the policy-making process. The book uses a comparative framework and explores the research discourse of prominent Indian think tanks particularly on the India–Pakistan dispute and offers unique insights and perspectives on their research design and methodology. It draws attention to the policy discourse of think tanks during the Composite Dialogue peace process between India and Pakistan and the subsequent support from the government which further expanded their role. One of the first books to offer empirical analyses into the role of these organisations in India this book highlights the relevance of and the crucial role that these institutions have played as non-state policy actors. Insightful and topical this book will be of interest to researchers focused on international relations foreign policy analysis and South Asian politics. It would also be a good resource for students interested in a theoretical understanding of foreign policy institutions in general and Indian foreign policy in particular. | India's Pakistan Policy How Think Tanks Are Shaping Foreign Relations

GBP 38.99
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Kipling in India

Kipling in India

This book explores and re-evaluates Kipling’s connection with India its people culture languages and locales through his experiences and his writings. Kipling’s works attracted interest among a large section of the British public stimulating curiosity in their far-off Indian Empire and made many canonize him as an emblem of the ‘Raj’. This volume highlights the astonishing social and thematic range of his Indian writings as represented in The Jungle Books; Kim; his early verse; his Simla-based tales of Anglo-Indian intrigues and love affairs; his stories of the common Indian people; and his journalism. It brings together different theoretical and contextual readings of Kipling to examine how his experience of India influenced his creative work and conversely how his imperial loyalties conditioned his creative engagement with India. The 18 chapters here engage with the complexities and contradictions in his writings and analyse the historical and political contexts in which he wrote them and the contexts in which we read him now. With well-known contributors from different parts of the world – including India the UK the USA Canada France Japan and New Zealand – this book will be of great interest not only to those interested in Kipling’s life and works but also to researchers and scholars of nineteenth-century literature comparative studies postcolonial and subaltern studies colonial history and cultural studies. | Kipling in India

GBP 39.99
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Water Histories of South Asia The Materiality of Liquescence

Water Histories of South Asia The Materiality of Liquescence

This book surveys the intersections between water systems and the phenomenology of visual cultures in early modern colonial and contemporary South Asia. Bringing together contributions by eminent artists architects curators and scholars who explore the connections between the environmental and the cultural the volume situates water in an expansive relational domain. It covers disciplines as diverse as literary studies environmental humanities sustainable design urban planning and media studies. The chapters explore the ways in which material cultures of water generate technological and aesthetic acts of envisioning geographies and make an intervention within political social and cultural discourses. A critical interjection in the sociologies of water in the subcontinent the book brings art history into conversation with current debates on climate change by examining water’s artistic architectural engineering religious scientific and environmental facets from the 16th century to the present. This is one of the first books on South Asia’s art architecture and visual history to interweave the ecological with the aesthetic under the emerging field of eco art history. The volume will be of interest to scholars and general readers of art history Islamic studies South Asian studies urban studies architecture geography history and environmental studies. It will also appeal to activists curators art critics and those interested in water management. | Water Histories of South Asia The Materiality of Liquescence

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