Bridging The Gap: Essays on Inclusive Development and Education - Hardcover

9788132107521: Bridging The Gap: Essays on Inclusive Development and Education

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8132107527 ISBN 13: 9788132107521

Publisher: SAGE, 2011

India has just celebrated sixty-four years of independence. But is our country truly free? Is the maturity of a nation measured by the number of years in existence or by the development in its society? And whose development are we talking about? Ten leading luminaries from the field of politics, literature, media, art and culture, management, defense, and public administration raise these questions and try to answer them through their own specialized domains.

Organized around two broad themes―"inclusion of the excluded" and "education for the marginalized" Bridging the Gap offer an exposition to the range of inequalities and challenges in different fields of social engagement, and open up possible ways of addressing these concerns. The contributors discuss inclusiveness and marginalization in the contemporary social contexts, their diverse dimensions, and interlinkages with various sources of social inequalities including caste-, class-, and gender-related factors.

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About the Authors

Latha Pillai is currently the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). She is the recipient of Indo-US Visitors Fellowship, and has also received the prestigious Endeavour Award by the Australian government.

Babu P Remesh is Associate Professor at the School of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). He is also the Coordinator of the Group on Labour and Development at IGNOU. Remesh is the author of two books, Shifting Trajectories (2008) and Dynamics of Rural Labour (2010).

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Organized around two broad themes "inclusion of the excluded" and "education for the marginalized," this book offers an exposition to the range of inequalities and challenges in different fields of social engagement, and open up possible ways of addressing these concerns.

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