The Future of Indian Universities

Comparative and International Perspectives

Buch | Hardcover

480 Seiten

2018
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-948065-4 (ISBN)

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This volume emphasizes the need for fundamental reforms into the existing institutional structure of higher education and their governance so as to infuse much needed dynamism and renewed sense of purpose in the higher education sector in India. The contributors to the volume argue that universities ought to be dynamic institutions where new ideas are exchanged, mistakes made, and lessons learnt. The contributors highlight the fact that the university system in India is based upon a bureaucratic command and control system that constrains the freedom and liberty required for academic pursuit, and disallows flourishing of academic cultures in tandem with the changing demands of India's economy and democracy. This process of learning and constantly reinventing is not possible, if regulations are made with the purpose of exercising control leading to obstacles and hindrances for institution building. The only way for Indian universities to change, the contributors believe, is to expand autonomy, so that universities can find their own space within India. Promoting excellence in Indian universities is not just a goal that is worthy of pursuing, but the authors argue, a policy imperative that needs to be achieved.

C. Raj Kumar is Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University; and Dean, Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat, Haryana (NCR of Delhi), India.

Dedication
Foreword by Virander S. Chauhan
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction by C. Raj Kumar

PART I Indian Universities: Imaginations, Aspirations and Expectations
1. The Future of Higher Education in India
C. Raj Kumar
2. An Invitation to a Thought Experiment: Quality, Diversity and the Epistemics of University
Shiv Visvanathan
3. The Future of Indian Universities: Voices from within Beckoning for the Future
Indira Parikh
4. The Indian University in a Comparative Perspective
Madhava Menon
5. Strategic Management of Expansion of Higher Education in India: Key Policy Interventions for Change
Pawan Agarwal
6. Building New Institutions of Excellence in India: Three Case Studies of Innovation
Pramath Raj Sinha

PART II Indian Higher Education in a Comparative Perspective:
Policy, Regulation and Management
7. Future of Indian Universities: Need for a Liberalized Legal Regime
Francis Julian
8. Global Competitiveness, Privatization, Dignified Spaces, and Curricular Reform in Indian Higher Education
Kanti Bajpai
9. Challenges of Knowledge Creation for Indian Universities
Stephen P. Marks
10. Science-Policy Interfaces in an Era of Global Commodification
Barbara Harris-White
11. Creating Educational Excellence: The Role of Culture at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Shailendra Mehta
12. Challenges of Creating a World-class Global Private University in India: Perspective of an Administrator
Y.S.R. Murthy
13. Deconstructing the Discourse on University Social Responsibility
Anamika Srivastava

PART III: Pedagogy of Interdisciplinarity: Law, Humanities and Global Studies in India
14. The Phoenix of Interdisciplinarity in Higher Education
Yugank Goyal
15. The Role of Humanities in a University Education
Alice Prochaska
16. The Liberal Arts in the American Context: What India Can Learn from Western Liberal Education
Carol M. Bresnahan
17. Public Policy as a Practice
R. Sudarshan
18. Global Studies in Indian Universities: Past Imperfect, Future Circumspect
Sreeram Chaulia
19. Clinical Legal Education and Democracy in India
Sital Kalantry

Index
About the Editor and Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2018
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 223 mm
Gewicht	710 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-19-948065-6 / 0199480656
ISBN-13	978-0-19-948065-4 / 9780199480654
Zustand	Neuware