Higher Education Today And Tomorrow

Book Code: 1111008613711

Umrao Singh Chaudhari

ABOUT THE BOOK

In this book, the author examines different aspects of higher education to enable the teachers and administrators to solve the problems generally faced in the colleges and universities. To relate higher education to contemporary social issues, themes on social justice and excellence, social change and higher education and value-orientation in higher education have been included. Since change is permanent and uncertainty is certain in today's world, the author pleads to have different epistemology and pedagogy for the institutions of higher learning. Growing complexity of the world has the power to dislocate the 'self'. What matters most, therefore, is not knowledge that teachers impart to the learners, because knowledge is short-lived and contestable. On the other hand, "student's mode of being" that enables them to deal with the supercomplex world, is of utmost importance for copability. Hence, the student's being must get preference to knowledge in educational transactions. ,Classrooms of colleges and universities have been reduced to 'lesson hearing rooms'. They are antidialogical and they suffer from 'narration sickness'. They have to be made hospitable to questioning and disagreement. We are living in an epistemic and inquiring society wherein knowledge, meaning and truth are not given. They are to be explored and constructed in an interactive and collaborative endeavour by the teachers and students. For successful higher education, there must always be certain freshness in knowledge dealt with. It must either be new in itself or it must be invested with some novelty of application to the new world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Umrao Singh Chaudhari is former Vice-chancellor and retired Professor of Education in the Devi Ahilya University, Indore (Madhya Pradesh). He has, so far, authored six books on Education and Culture and published around 200 research and theoretical papers. A few of them have appeared in the educational journals and magazines of America, Canada and New Zealand. He had done his post doctoral research in the University of Pittsburgh (USA), under Indo-American Fellowship Program, in 1982.,He was nominated as member of the Governing Council of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) by the Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India, for two consecutive terms, from 1999 to 2005. He is a winner of Dr Hari Singh Gaur Award, instituted by the Govt.

CONTENTS

Preface, Introduction : An Epistemology and, Pedagogy for Uncertainty, 1. The Indian Mind, 2. Culture, Development and Globalization, 3. Hinduism and its Relevance in Global, Academic Scenario, 4. Attaining Three Goals of Higher Education, 5. “Teaching-Research” Nexus and Knowledge, Society, 6. Ill Fated Autonomy of Universities :, Diagnosis and Remedy, 7. University : An Oasis of Intellectual Life, 8. Imagination and University Education, 9. University : A Sanctuary of Dissenting Ideas, 10. Virtual Universities or Digital Diploma Mills, 11. Educational Administrators and Challenges, of the Future, 12. Educational Administrator : An Entrepreneur, and Incubator of Ideas, 13. Under Performance and Indiffernce of, Teachers in Higher Education, 14. Teacher Education and Challenges of, Change, 3, 7, 13, 19, 33, 47, 61, 69, 79, 83, 87, 91, 95, 101, 105, 111, 2 Higher Education Today and Tomorrow, 15. Continuing Education of University and, College Teachers, 16. Competency Based Teaching : Some Issues, 17. Managing New Media in Education to, Humanize Technology, 18. Instructional Strategies for Improved, Learning from Distance Teaching Materials, 19. Privatization and Commercialization of, Higher Education, 20. Modern Education System : An Overhaul, Needed, 21. Raising Quality of Higher Education, 22. Value Orientation in Higher Education, 23. Education and Social Change, 24. Equalizing Educational Opportunity, 25. Social Justice : Reconciling Equality with, Excellence, 26. Human Rights Education : Need and Nature, 27. Peace Education : Beating Swords into, Plowshares, 28. Research in Social Sciences : Overcoming, Phobia for Subjectivity, 29. Revolutionizing Teaching and Learning of, Sciences, 30. Taboo on Tenderness in Science Teaching, 31. Spiritual Leardership : Why and What?, Index, 117, 123, 135, 141, 153, 167, 171, 179, 189, 201, 205, 213, 221, 227, 235, 239, 241, 249

of MP, for the scholars who make outstanding contributions to the area of Social Sciences. He was also nominated as Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Educational Psychology published by the Princeton University (USA), for one term. He is also a nominated Member of the State Level Coordination Committee for Quality Assurance in Higher Education, Ministry of Higher Education, Govt. of MP, Bhopal.