Browsing Working Papers by Author "Sherry Chand, Vijaya"
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Adjusting education policy: opportunity for institutional reform
Sherry Chand, Vijaya (2010-04-17)Educational policy-making has been motivated in independent India by a concern for equity and the belief that education is an instrument for reducing social inequalities. However, in spite of impressive achievements in ... -
Drop out enrollment and poverty: policy implications
Sherry Chand, Vijaya; Shukla, Shailesh R. (2010-03-29)Debate around the factors responsible for the drop-out phenomenon in elementary education focuses largely on two positions: (a) that parents, under economic compulsions, tend to {withdraw| their children from school, (b) ... -
Education for social action the fellowship programme in social management
Sherry Chand, Vijaya (2010-03-29)The Fellowship Programme in Social Management, run by a non-governmental organization, aims at training development workers. It can be located within the tradition of non-formal educational experiments which try to develop ... -
Empowerment for sustainable development: building upon local creativity and entrepreneurship in Vulnerable environments
Gupta, Anil K.; Patel, Kirit K.; Pastakia, A. R.; Sherry Chand, Vijaya (2010-04-17)A transition towards sustainable development requires recognition of the fundamental contradiction between the strategies which build upon what people do not know or have and the ones which take people s knowledge systems ... -
An Exploratory Study of the Role of Educational Incentives in Primary Education in Gujarat
Sherry Chand, Vijaya; Banerjee, Tathagata; Chattopadhyay, Bhargab (2009-07-25)This study explores the role of incentives—monetary or non-monetary compensation offered to children so that an educational need is fulfilled or perceived cost is brought down—in attaining certain expected educational ... -
Farmers innovations for sustainable resources management and conservation of biological diversity
Gupta, Anil K.; Suthar, Jitendra; Muralikrishnan; Srinivas; Patel, Kirit; Koradia, Dileep; Rawal, Alka; Pastakia, Astad; Shukla, Shailesh; Sherry Chand, Vijaya (2010-03-28)The agricultural transformation during green revolution is no more green in most developing countries. The declining productivity of inputs clearly points to the non-sustainable nature of current growth processes. While ... -
From inspection systems to peer learning: teacher development in primary education
Sherry Chand, Vijaya; Shukla, Shailesh R. (2009-12-12)The inspection system is a visible link between the large numbers of village-based teachers and the district-level administration. While it may be successful in its school audit function, dissatisfaction with the system ... -
Managerial Challenges in Addressing HIV/AIDS: Gujarat State AIDS Control Society (GSACS)
Ramani, K. V.; Mavalankar, Dileep; Tirupati, Devanath; Sherry Chand, Vijaya (2009-07-30)The spread of HIV/AIDS is not merely a problem of public health; it is also an economic, political, and social challenge that threatens to hinder decades of progress in different parts of Gujarat. There is an urgent need ... -
School drop outs as bare foot veterinarians: lessons from a nonformal education project
Sherry Chand, Vijaya (2010-03-29)This paper is based on the experience of a non-governmental organization in educating 113 school drop-outs as ybare-footz veterinarians in the tribal areas of Gujarat. The pedagogy focussed on yunlearningz and countering ... -
What employers value in the MBAs they recruit: rebalancing the management education curriculum
Rao, T. V.; Saxena, Siddhartha Satish; Sherry Chand, Vijaya; Narendran, Rajeshwari; Bharathan, Kandaswamy; Jajoo, B. H. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)This paper seeks to answer the question, “In the Indian context, what insights can employers offer on the knowing, doing and being dimensions of the formation of an MBA graduate, that management education institutes can ...