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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “vimala ramachandran”
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  • Inside Indian Schools

    The Enigma of Equity and Quality

    by Vimala Ramachandran ...
    After 70 years after independence, the tragic reality of Indian schools is that who we are, where we live, how much we earn and our gender influences the kind of education we will get. In this collection of essays the author explores the contours of a school system that is facing a crisis of legitimacy. While India aspires to march towards a knowledge driven society and economy, millions of young ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Getting the Right Teachers into the Right Schools

    Managing India's Teacher Workforce

    by Vimala Ramachandran, Tara Béteille, Toby Linden, Sangeeta Dey, Sangeeta Goyal, Prerna Goel Chatterjee ...
    Series series World Bank Studies
    India's landmark Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (2009) guarantees education to all children aged 6-14 years. The Act mandates specific student-teacher ratios and emphasizes teacher quality. Writing this into legislation took seven years, but the seven years since has proven that ensuring effective teachers are recruited and placed in all schools in a time-bound manner is ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abortion in India

    Ground Realities

    Edited by Leela Visaria, Shveta Kalyanwala, Vimala Ramachandran ...
    Despite the legalisation of abortion in India in 1971 and new laws/regulations introduced in 2002 and 2021, and notwithstanding the positive impact of Medical Abortion, the sad reality is that morbidity and mortality continue to remain worrisome for many women undergoing abortions. In the early 2000s, a lack of reliable information, wide regional and rural–urban differences and a thin research ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Cartographies of Empowerment

    The Mahila Samakhya Story

    Edited by Vimala Ramachandran, Kameshwari Jandhyala ...
    Mahila Samakhya is as much a story of a government programme for women’s education and empowerment as it is of the celebration of the struggles of poor women for gender just rights. Spread across eight states and more than 150 districts in India, the Mahila Samakhya programme grew out of a unique partnership between the women’s movement and the government. In this collection of essays, concerned ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Elementary Education System in India

    Exploring Institutional Structures, Processes and Dynamics

    Edited by Rashmi Sharma, Vimala Ramachandran ...
    This book focuses on the failure of elementary education since Independence, which is usually seen as the result of simplified phrases like 'lack of political will', 'because of poverty', etc. This book looks at the system as a whole: infrastructure, quality of teaching, privatisation, nutritional incentives, curriculum. It contains samples from two states namely Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Scientific Writing and Communication in Agriculture and Natural Resources

    by P.K. Ramachandran Nair, Vimala D. Nair ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The purpose of this book is to help early career professionals in agriculture and natural resources write their research papers for high-quality journals and present their results properly at professional meetings. Different fields have different conventions for writing style such that the authors of the book have found it difficult to recommend to young scientists in these fields a specific book ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

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  • Negotiating the Pandemic

    Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of COVID-19

    Edited by Inayat Ali, Robbie Davis-Floyd ...
    Series Book 19 - Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology
    This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID-19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different cultures and countries, with the final part of the volume focusing on South Asia and Pakistan in particular. The chapters include auto-ethnographic accounts and ethnographic explorations that reflect upon experiences ... Read more

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  • Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management, Second Edition

    Edited by Catherine L. Mah, Raisa B. Deber ...
    Covering a wide range of issues, the 22 cases included in Case Studies in Canadian Health Policy and Management constitute an exceptional resource for bringing real-life policy questions into the classroom. Based on actual events, the cases have been developed with input from mid-career professionals with strong field experience and extensively tested in Raisa B. Deber’s graduate case study ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Wombs in Labor

    Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India

    by Amrita Pande ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clinics and hostels and speaks with surrogates and their families, clients, doctors, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Discounted Life

    The Price of Global Surrogacy in India

    by Sharmila Rudrappa ...
    Winner, American Sociological Association Asia and Asian America Section Best Book on Asia/Transnational AsiaFinalist, 2015 C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsIndia is the top provider of surrogacy services in the world, with a multi-million dollar surrogacy industry that continues to grow exponentially, as increasing numbers of couples from developed nations ... Read more

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  • Ethics in Health Services and Policy

    A Global Approach

    by Dean M. Harris ...
    Series Book 43 - Jossey-Bass Public Health
    This comprehensive textbook analyzes the ethical issues of health and health care in global perspective. Ideal for students of public health, medicine, nursing and allied health professions, public policy, and ethics, the book helps students in all these areas to develop important competencies in their chosen fields. Applying a comparative, or multicultural, approach, the book compares different ... Read more

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