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The future of Indian universities : comparative and international perspectives / edited by C. Raj Kumar.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: xxxiv, 482 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199480654
  • 0199480656
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.54 RAJ 23
LOC classification:
  • LA1153 .I567 2013
Contents:
Table of contents Dedication Foreword by Virander S. Chauhan Acknowledgements Preface Introduction by C. Raj Kumar PART I Indian Universities: Imaginations, Aspirations and Expectations 1. The Future of Higher Education in India C. Raj Kumar 2. An Invitation to a Thought Experiment: Quality, Diversity and the Epistemics of University Shiv Visvanathan 3. The Future of Indian Universities: Voices from within Beckoning for the Future Indira Parikh 4. The Indian University in a Comparative Perspective Madhava Menon 5. Strategic Management of Expansion of Higher Education in India: Key Policy Interventions for Change Pawan Agarwal 6. Building New Institutions of Excellence in India: Three Case Studies of Innovation Pramath Raj Sinha PART II Indian Higher Education in a Comparative Perspective: Policy, Regulation and Management 7. Future of Indian Universities: Need for a Liberalized Legal Regime Francis Julian 8. Global Competitiveness, Privatization, Dignified Spaces, and Curricular Reform in Indian Higher Education Kanti Bajpai 9. Challenges of Knowledge Creation for Indian Universities Stephen P. Marks 10. Science-Policy Interfaces in an Era of Global Commodification Barbara Harris-White 11. Creating Educational Excellence: The Role of Culture at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad Shailendra Mehta 12. Challenges of Creating a World-class Global Private University in India: Perspective of an Administrator Y.S.R. Murthy 13. Deconstructing the Discourse on University Social Responsibility Anamika Srivastava PART III: Pedagogy of Interdisciplinarity: Law, Humanities and Global Studies in India 14. The Phoenix of Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education Yugank Goyal 15. The Role of Humanities in a University Education Alice Prochaska 16. The Liberal Arts in the American Context: What India Can Learn from Western Liberal Education Carol M. Bresnahan 17. Public Policy as a Practice R. Sudarshan 18. Global Studies in Indian Universities: Past Imperfect, Future Circumspect Sreeram Chaulia 19. Clinical Legal Education and Democracy in India Sital Kalantry Index
Summary: This volume emphasizes the need for fundamental reforms into the existing institutional structure of higher education and their governance so as to infuse much needed dynamism and renewed sense of purpose in the higher education sector in India. The contributors to the volume argue that universities ought to be dynamic institutions where new ideas are exchanged, mistakes made, and lessons learnt. The contributors highlight the fact that the university system in India is based upon a bureaucratic command and control system that constrains the freedom and liberty required for academic pursuit, and disallows flourishing of academic cultures in tandem with the changing demands of India's economy and democracy.
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BOOKs BOOKs National Law School 378.54 RAJ (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Donated By Vice Chancellor, NLSIU 36834

"This volume was inspired by an International Conference on 'The Future of Indian Universities: Comparative Perspectives on Higher Education Reforms for a Knowledge Society' that was held on the campus of the O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) in 2013"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-451) and index.

Table of contents

Dedication
Foreword by Virander S. Chauhan
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction by C. Raj Kumar

PART I Indian Universities: Imaginations, Aspirations and Expectations
1. The Future of Higher Education in India
C. Raj Kumar
2. An Invitation to a Thought Experiment: Quality, Diversity and the Epistemics of University
Shiv Visvanathan
3. The Future of Indian Universities: Voices from within Beckoning for the Future
Indira Parikh
4. The Indian University in a Comparative Perspective
Madhava Menon
5. Strategic Management of Expansion of Higher Education in India: Key Policy Interventions for Change
Pawan Agarwal
6. Building New Institutions of Excellence in India: Three Case Studies of Innovation
Pramath Raj Sinha

PART II Indian Higher Education in a Comparative Perspective:
Policy, Regulation and Management
7. Future of Indian Universities: Need for a Liberalized Legal Regime
Francis Julian
8. Global Competitiveness, Privatization, Dignified Spaces, and Curricular Reform in Indian Higher Education
Kanti Bajpai
9. Challenges of Knowledge Creation for Indian Universities
Stephen P. Marks
10. Science-Policy Interfaces in an Era of Global Commodification
Barbara Harris-White
11. Creating Educational Excellence: The Role of Culture at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Shailendra Mehta
12. Challenges of Creating a World-class Global Private University in India: Perspective of an Administrator
Y.S.R. Murthy
13. Deconstructing the Discourse on University Social Responsibility
Anamika Srivastava

PART III: Pedagogy of Interdisciplinarity: Law, Humanities and Global Studies in India
14. The Phoenix of Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education
Yugank Goyal
15. The Role of Humanities in a University Education
Alice Prochaska
16. The Liberal Arts in the American Context: What India Can Learn from Western Liberal Education
Carol M. Bresnahan
17. Public Policy as a Practice
R. Sudarshan
18. Global Studies in Indian Universities: Past Imperfect, Future Circumspect
Sreeram Chaulia
19. Clinical Legal Education and Democracy in India
Sital Kalantry

Index

This volume emphasizes the need for fundamental reforms into the existing institutional structure of higher education and their governance so as to infuse much needed dynamism and renewed sense of purpose in the higher education sector in India. The contributors to the volume argue that universities ought to be dynamic institutions where new ideas are exchanged, mistakes made, and lessons learnt. The contributors highlight the fact that the university system in India is based upon a bureaucratic command and control system that constrains the freedom and liberty required for academic pursuit, and disallows flourishing of academic cultures in tandem with the changing demands of India's economy and democracy.

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