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Most of the papers in this collection deal with one or more of the problems that our society is facing in consolidating itself into a nation and in living up to the ideals of democracy, secularism and social equality. These papers, which were primarily written as special lectures and seminar presentations, were written at various times spread over a period of little less than a decade.
Though the perspective from which these papers were written is that of a ...
The word ‘development’ was used for many years to refer primarily to economic development only. The concept of social development as different from economic development arose out of the many discussions at the national conferences as also out of the discussions in many international meetings under the auspices of United Nations. The papers brought together in this book were mainly prepared for these national and international meetings and deal with the effort ...
The present anthology is written over a period of twenty-five years in sociological perspective of Indian education. The book is divided into four parts. Part one, which is titled as "Education and Society" includes four papers, namely, education and modernization; liberalism, education and social change; education and the equality of opportunity; and relevance, equality and creativity in education. Part two entitled "Education and social ...