Emerging Trends in Higher Education in India: Concepts and Practices

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Prerequisite to the formation of a developed nation is the need to ensure education for all. Recognizing the need to address this issue, especially in a developing nation like India, Emerging Trends in Higher Education in India: Concepts and Practices provides critical insights in the field of Education to achieve this goal.

The essays in this volume present a comparative perspective of national and global education policies. These discussions by eminent scholars also generate new theories and identify areas in need of scholarly research in order to construct an education system based on quality, excellence and inclusion.

With an aim to help shape policy changes for the restructuring of the education system in India, this volume provides much-needed guidance for policymakers in the field of education. These in-depth analyses of the concepts and practices effecting the growth of higher education will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology and educational studies.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR K N Panikkar

KN Panikkar is among the foremost historians of modern India. Formerly with the Jawaharlal Nehru University, he is currently the Vice Chancellor, Sree Sankeracharya University, Kalady, Kerala. His books include Against Lord and State: Religion and Peasant Uprisings in Malabar (Oxford University Press, 1990), Culture and Consciousness in Malabar (Oxford University Press, 1990). He has also edited a number of books including A Concerned Indian's Guide to Communalism (Penguin, 1999) and the ICHR volume on towards Freedom, 1940, A Documentary History of the Freedom Struggle (unpublished and suppressed).