Globalisation and Challenges For Education : Focus On Equity and Equality

Contents: Preface. 1. Basic education: making it work for the poor experiences from the south/R. Govinda. 2. Local knowledge and human development in globalisation of education/Yin Cheong Cheng. 3. Qualifications in a global market: deepening the divide?/Sarie J. Berkhout. 4. The global and the local challenges in formal basic schooling in post-apartheid South Africa/Shireen Motala and Kimberley Porteus. 5. The dynamics of education and training in Vietnam: the contradictory effects of globalisation in terms of inequalities/Nolwen Henaff and Jean-YVES Martin, IRD. 6. Entrepreneurship education as a means of eradicating unemployment among individuals with disabilities/Faridash Serajul Haq. 7. Community college: a democratic response to globalisation providing equity and equal opportunity/S.J. Xavier Alphonse. 8. Globalized education and human development: a risk analysis/S. Giriappa. 9. Globalisation and educational challenges Tamil Nadu experience/V. Loganathan and K. Jothi Sivagnanam. 10. Impact of globalisation on human development and education/J. Cyril Kanmony. 11. Competition as an outcome of globalisation: its effect on urban secondary school boys/Manidipa Ray (Mitra) Aditi Ghosh. 12. Globalisation and impact on human: development with a focus on education a Baha\'i viewpoint/A.K. Merchant. 13. Globalisation and its impact on aspiration and achievement: need for policy review/I. Ramabrahmam and Meena Harharan. 14. Globalisation: the threat perceptions to equality of educational opportunities/M.K. Pathy. 15. Globalisation and impact of human development and education/Nimma Venkata Rao. 16. Globalisation and human development/ D. Jeevan Kumar. 17. Globalisation and impact on human development and education/R.N. Mahlawat. 18. Globalisation and impact on human development with a focus on education/P.L. Varma. 19. Globalisation and impact on human development with a focus on education: an experiment in Tagore\'s land/Kali Sankar Chattopadhyay. 20. Globalisation and gender equality: lessons to learn/Sneha M. Joshi and Ashutosh Biswal. 21. Globalisation and challenges for education: focus on equity and equality/Arpita Sabath. 22. Globalisation of education and human development/Nighat Ahmad. 23. Learning for sustainable development: the global challenge and opportunities for India/Rashmi Diwan. 24. Globalisation and inequalities in educational development in India: focus on Andhra Pradesh/V.P.S. Raju. 25. India\'s human development experience during 1990s: an inter-state analysis/K.C. Reddy, U.N. Moorthy and M. Sarojini. 26. Multiple inequalities of globalisation and what to do about them/M.R. Kolhatkar. 27. Human development and education: a post reforms experience in India and Karnataka State/Talwar Sabanna and M.S. Kallur. 28. Impact of globalisation on education/S.M. Sungoh. 29. Globalisation and perpetuation of inequality: language dynamics in early schooling/Ganesha Somayaji. 30. Globalisation and its impact on social and human development in India: an analysis/A. Meenakshisundararajan. 31. Equity and financing education/Kishor C. Samal. 32. Digital divide and its impact on education and employment/P. Arumugam. 33. Globalisation of education/Santosh Sharma. 34. Globalisation and impact on human development and education/Mahesh Gadekar. 35. Structural predicaments and digital divide: how real in South Asia?/Binod C. Agrawal. 36. The digital divide/R.P. Singh. 37. Meeting the challenges of globalisation through information technology/Tara Sabapathy. 38. Implications of globalisation for knowledge management, education and learning/K. Srinivas. 39. Globalisation and its impact on human development and education/R. Raman. 40. Digital divide and education YCMOU experience/M.V. Barve. 41. Digital divide and globalisation of education/Chandra Shekhar Misra. 42. Digital divide and education/Ila Joshi. 43. Utilisation of computers and internet facilities postgraduate students in Universities of Kerala/C. Naseema. 44. From digital divide to digital opportunities/V. Radhakrishnan and V.G. Chandramohan. 45. Digital education for all: need of the hour/Bhaskara A. Yerroju. 46. The digital globalisation of higher education/D.N. Sansanwal. 47. Digital divide and education: some issues/Ratnakar Gedam. 48. Impact of globalisation on engineering education/Vinod M. Mohitkar, Sangita J. Vaidya, and N.B. Pasalkar. 49. A study report on the digital divide towards education/S. Jayaraman and N. Valarmathi. 50. Equal opportunity in the information technology sector, reality or myth: a case study/Ranjana Agarwal. 51. Globalisation and national policy: institution level responses in education/P.G. Vijaya Sherry Chand. 52. Globalizations: its impact on education/J.L. Azad. 53. A new conceptual framework for the evolution of thought in the area of educational design and development within the context of globalisation and its emerging intra sectoral inequalities/Sohayl Mohajer. 54. Implications of globalisation for university reforms: concern for quality and equality/L.H. Bagalkot. 55. Globalisation: perspectives on policy and strategies for equitable management of school and mass education in India/Dibakar Sarangi. 56. Globalisation versus socialization: some epistemology issues in higher education/K. Subba Rao. 57. A new WTO paradigm: equity and equality in higher education/Raja Aggarwal. 58. Globalisation and its implications to strengthen education/B. William Dharma Raja. 59. Education and human development: the impact of globalisation/Santanu Kumar Swain. 60. Challenges of globalisation on engineering education in India/Anil Kumar. 61. Globalisation and impact on human development and education/L.B. Patted. 62. Globalisation and intra sectoral inequalities in education/Rachna Umrao and Ram Prakash. 63. Business behaviour in Indian higher education system and its impact on equality/S.P. Malhotra. 64. Financing education in India in the Macro economic reform period: focus on intra-sectoral allocation of resources/P. Geetha Rani.

Globalisation has created serious economic crisis also in many developing countries and this made lethal changes a far as the state provisions of education are concerned. The ongoing changes due to globalisation provide a context to reconsider the challenge find the opportunities and devise changes needed to foster development. In particular to avoid the discrepancy created by the new information technology and other aspects of the processes of globalisation. It is imperative to find what has been effective to the fight against the new challenges of education specially poverty is the main hurdle for the education development. The reforms in this era should be equity driven.

The book deals with national and international issues of globalisation and its impact on social economic intersectoral inequalities and digital divide. NIEPA felt it is worthwhile venture to compile key papers of the international conference in a pre conference book form for the referral benefit to policy makers and planners researchers and students. (jacket)