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New and Bestselling titles Education 2016-2017 www.sagepub.in Education | 2016-17 Seconds with Marmar Mukhopadhyay Why is higher education in India lagging behind in An advice that you would like to share with the head comparison to the education in the West? of educational institutes across India? Quality of research and teaching are the two major gaps Heads of institutions understands what quality page 5A for Indian universities to compete globally. High quality education is. But they must recognize that quality does research and teaching warrants high quality faculty not come automatically. Quality must be an active and facilities. Indian universities are funded too little agenda of management. There are several well tested to attract talented young people to the profession and techniques of quality management. Together with the develop globally competitive academic facilities. Indian faculty and students, they must set quality policy and universities are far too governed and controlled for strategic plans for quality improvement. Quality is not innovation. Academic competition and recognition for necessarily costly; but certainly challenges creativity of performance are missing. the leadership. How do changing governments play an important Lastly, please share your invaluable suggestions role in education reforms? that students should keep in mind while choosing an educational institute. Major instruments of educational reforms are policies and action plans. Higher Education institutions Employers prefer brilliant students from mediocre have demonstrated their capabilities of managing university over mediocre student from brilliant themselves. Governments would be well advised to universities. You must excel. You can excel when what facilitate (not control) by removing road blocks from the you study matches with your natural propensities path of innovations and excellence. Government must and learning preferences. Every subject is good only create a level playing field for private, state and central if you excel. Choose a university that supports your institutions. learning preferences and your learning style. Choose a university where ‘teachers deeply engage with students.’ 2016 • 388 pages • ` 995.00 Hardback (978-93-515-0996-7) 23 February 2015 Classrooms, Cultures And Cases page 3A The book is an important contribution to the anthropological studies on schooling in India and, perhaps, one of the most definitive works on the subject. The book is a collection of student-teacher ratios and college Despite such risks, Chapters such ethnographic studies conducted entrance exams. However, these as Anuradha Sharma’s ‘Negotiating on various schools in India and has numbers cannot possibly capture School and Gender: Peer been edited by Meenakshi Thapan, the true picture of the process of Performatives’, Parul Bhandari’s ‘In a Professor of Sociology at the schooling in the country. The study Quest of Identity: Student Culture in Delhi School of Economics and co- is based on research conducted in a Religious Minority Institution’ seem ordinator of the D.S. Kothari Centre three private and two government well structured. for Science, Ethics and Education in schools in Delhi, two aided Muslim The book is an important contribution Delhi University. In Ethnographies schools in Ahmedabad and a private to the anthropological studies on of Schooling in Contemporary school in Andhra Pradesh. schooling in India and, perhaps, India, the authors have explored Evidently, this book provides a gauge one of the most definitive works on what it’s like to be in the classroom of various cultures prevalent in the the subject. Besides being a useful of Indian schools, and sought to sample schools. Here, it is pertinent manual to a postgraduate student, get a perspective on the dynamics to note that ethnographic studies academic staff and a school head, involved. require adequate training, since the book will be equally useful to With a large population of school- researchers may “pollute” the data planners and administrators creating 2014 • 380 pages • ` 950.00 going children in the country, we tend by making the students’ conscious, a holistic way of nurturing students. Hardback (978-81-321-1385-0) to look at education through criteria or using their own subjectivity and such as dropout rates, grades, biases. student strength, attendance rates, Education | 2016 / 2017 ESSENTIAL RESOURCES Contents Behaviour Management ..................................................... 17 Coaching ...................................................................... 26-27 Corwin Press ................................................................ 36-39 Counselling ........................................................................ 17 Early Childhood & Early Years .........................................2-6 Education - All Phases .....................................................7-8 Education Studies .........................................................22-23 Further & Adult Education ............................................24-26 Leadership & Management ...............................................26 Outdoor Learning .................................................................6 Primary Education ..........................................................9-16 Reference & Major Works ............................................33-35 Research Methods ....................................................... 28-30 Secondary Education ........................................................17 SEN & Inclusion ............................................................18-19 Study Skills ...................................................................31-32 Bestsellers in Education .............................................. 20-21 Key Titles .......................................................................10-11 Index ............................................................................. 40-44 SAGE India Education .....................................................................1A-8A Special Needs Education ...........................................9A-11A Literature ...................................................................11A-12A Early Childhood & Early Years THE EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION STAGE Theory and Practice Third Edition Edited by Ioanna Palaiologou Canterbury Christ Church University Praise for the previous edition: The Second Edition by Palaiologou is a must-have. 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