The Indian Metamorphosis Essays on Its Enlightenment, Education, and Society /

• Main Author: Maharatna, Arup (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Legislative bodies.; Political science.; Political economy.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Asia-Politics and government.; Legislative and Executive Politics.; Governance and Government.; International Political Economy.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Asian Politics.

This book examines various ideational, attitudinal and intellectual impasses that are becoming glaringly apparent on several fronts, and which have held back India's balanced, steady and uniform development and transformation post-independence. It argues that all of these ideational and attitud...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1: India as its own Making
• Chapter 1: Indian Metamorphosis
• Chapter 2: India's Costly Evasion from 'Enlightenment' Ideas and Values
• Chapter 3: India's Educational Thinking and Aims, and School Curriculum: A Critical Look
• Part 2: Global Educational Crisis and Endangered Future
• Chapter 4: 'Invasion' of Neo-Liberal Economic Thinking into Educational Universe: A Civilizational Casualty?
• Chapter 5: Global Crisis in Higher Education: Is Merit Being Trampled by Marketing and Money?.