Overview
- Provides a scholarly discourse on education and culture involving India and Canada in a comparative perspective
- Enhances the understanding of comparative development strategies between the two nations
- Includes useful models for comparative and interdisciplinary research in the humanities and social sciences
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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About this book
The chapter authors take up important issues related to community college development, mental health in education, multilingual education, indigenous populations and their education and development. They discuss issues related to bilateral and foreign trade agreements as well as policies of the two countries on climate change research. Lastly, they discuss indigenous performance cultures and sports in the two countries and the long history of migration from India to Canada.
The volume is of interest to a wide readership from the humanities and social sciences, particularly readers interested in Indo-Canadian scholarship.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. K. Gayithri is a Professor of Economics in the Center for Economic Studies and Policy at the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. She has been a recipient of Shastri Indo Canadian faculty research fellowship twice to undertake comparative fiscal studies at the Carleton University, Canada. She also served the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute as an Executive Committee member. She has undergone training at the Duke Center for International development, Duke University, on aspects relating to ‘public budgeting and financial management’. She has also participated in the executive education program on ‘Public financial management in a changing world’ at the John F. Kennedy School of government at the Harvard University, Boston.
Dr. Suchorita Chattopadhyay is the founder and coordinator of the Centre for Canadian Studies at Jadavpur University. She is also a member of the Indian Members' Council, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute since 2005. She has organized 12 national and international seminars and conferences on Canadian Studies and has edited 5 volumes on Canadian Studies. She also teaches regularly at the Centre for Translations of Indian Literatures at Jadavpur University and also serves on their Academic/Advisory Committee. She is also an Executive Committee member of the Comparative Literature Association of India.She was the joint coordinator of the XIth Biennial International Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of India held at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in January 2013.
Dr. B. Hariharan is a Professor at the Institute of English, and Director of the UGC Area Study Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. He completed a Major Research Project funded by the UGC. As member of the editorial team, he prepared introductory course material on Canadian Studies hosted at www.canadastukeralauniv.edu.in. He has also published book length study on the novels of Robert Kroetsch; co-edited books apart from translating from Malayalam. His area of interest includes theatre, diasporas, translation, Canadian novel. He is Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute Graduate Fellowship Recipient in 1992-93. His current interest is to theorize the hyphen in relation to Diaspora and the teaching of the contexts in which translation functions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nation-Building, Education and Culture in India and Canada
Book Subtitle: Advances in Indo-Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Research
Editors: K. Gayithri, B. Hariharan, Suchorita Chattopadhyay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6741-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6740-3Published: 20 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6743-4Published: 20 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6741-0Published: 10 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 241
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Culture, Development and Sustainability