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  • Special Treatment

    Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences

    by Anna Ruddock ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is iconic in the landscape of Indian healthcare. Established in the early years of independence, this enormous public teaching hospital rapidly gained fame for the high-quality treatment it offered at a nominal cost; at present, an average of ten thousand patients pass through the outpatient department each day. With its notorious medical program ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Reaching for the Sky: Empowering Girls Through Education

    Empowering Girls Through Education

    by Urvashi Sahni ...
    Transforming the Lives of Impoverished Girls in Patriarchal SocietiesSince 2003 a privately funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh. Urvashi Sahni, the founder of Prerna Girls School, has written a compelling narrative of how this modest school in northeast India has changed ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Disrupting White Mindfulness

    Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry

    by Cathy-Mae Karelse ...
    Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives that shape the mindfulness industry - whiteness, postracialism and neoliberalism. Its positioning as ‘apolitical’ forges institutions that fit comfortably into increasingly divided societies. The race-gender profile of these institutions reveals a White, middle-class profile of decision-makers, educators and staff ... Read more

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  • Education and Inequality in India

    A Classroom View

    by Manabi Majumdar, Jos Mooij ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Universalization of primary education has been high on the policy agenda in India. This book looks at the reproduction of social inequalities within the educational system in India, and how this is contested in different ways. It examines whether the concept of `education for all’ is just a mechanically conceived policy target to chasing enrolment and attendance or whether it is a larger social ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Inside Indian Schools

    The Enigma of Equity and Quality

    by Vimala Ramachandran ...
    After 70 years after independence, the tragic reality of Indian schools is that who we are, where we live, how much we earn and our gender influences the kind of education we will get. In this collection of essays the author explores the contours of a school system that is facing a crisis of legitimacy. While India aspires to march towards a knowledge driven society and economy, millions of young ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • African Traditional Medicine at the Cross Roads in South Africa Challenges faced by its institutionalisation

    by Nceba Gqaleniand and Nompumelelo Mbatha ...
    This book explores the views of a cross-section of the KwaZulu-Natal Traditional Health Practitioner (THP) community regarding the transformation of the traditional medicine sector necessitated by legislation: the Constitution, the Health Act and the Traditional Health Practitioners (THP) Act. The changes have implications for the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and Human Resource Officials ... Read more

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  • Self

    by Eilis Ward ...
    This book argues that we have got it wrong in the West in our pursuit of what we consider to be ‘self’: an autonomous, self-driven, entrepreneurial entity, always on, always positive and always improving. This is a neoliberal self, a being stripped of the social. In a radical critique, this book argues that this is a deeply harmful view and is the source of much of our suffering. More, through ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japan's Emerging Youth Policy

    Getting Young Adults Back to Work

    by Tuukka Toivonen ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    From the 1960s onwards, Japan’s rapid economic growth coincided with remarkably smooth transitions from school to work and with internationally low levels of youth unemployment. However, this changed dramatically in the 1990s, and by the 2000s, youth employment came to be recognized as a serious concern requiring an immediate response. What shape did this response take?Japan’s Emerging Youth ... Read more

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  • GENDER SCHOOL AND SOCIETY

    by Shivendra Singh, M Zaid Saifi ...
    The opportunity to pen this introduction to my debut book, "GENDER, SCHOOL AND SOCIETY," is one that fills me with excitement. Consideration of gender in social issues is the topic of this book. Being a boy or a girl has varied implications and experiences in different cultures, eras, and communities. Due to centuries of discrimination, she learned to view herself as a lesser human being and an ... Read more

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  • Children and Media in India

    Narratives of Class, Agency and Social Change

    by Shakuntala Banaji ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    Is the bicycle, like the loudspeaker, a medium of communication in India?Do Indian children need trade unions as much as they need schools?What would you do with a mobile phone if all your friends were playing tag in the rain or watching Indian Idol? Children and Media in India illuminates the experiences, practices and contexts in which children and young people in diverse locations across India ... Read more

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  • Gender Equity: Challenges and Opportunities

    Proceedings of 2nd International Conference of Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology

    Edited by Vasundhara Mahajan, Anandita Chowdhury, Urvashi Kaushal, Namrta Jariwala, Sharon A. Bong ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book comprises the proceedings of the TEQIP III Sponsored 2nd International Conference on “Gender Equity: Challenges and Opportunities” (2nd ICOGECAO 2020 -Virtual Mode), held at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat, India, from 25 to 27 November 2020. ICOGECAO provided a platform for researchers from multiple countries to present their views about the ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Beyond Inclusion

    The Practice of Equal Access in Indian Higher Education

    Edited by Satish Deshpande, Usha Zacharias ...
    In India, two critical aspects of public policy — social justice and higher education — have witnessed unprecedented expansion in recent years. While several programmes have been designed by the State to equalise access to higher education and implement formal inclusion, discrimination based on caste, tribe, gender, and rural location continues to exist. Focusing on the concrete experiences of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD