Higher Education in Nepal (eBook, PDF)

Policies and Perspectives
Redaktion: Bista, Krishna; Raby, Rosalind Latiner; Sharma, Shyam

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a showcase of discussions and critical perspectives about Nepalese higher education. The book offers information and resources to international educators interested in the dynamics of Nepalese and, by implication, South Asian higher education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351139199
• Artikelnr.: 57532753

Autorenporträt

Krishna Bista is Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership and Policy at Morgan State University, Maryland. His research focuses on college student experiences related to classroom participation, faculty-student relationships, and cross-cultural teachings, and learning strategies in higher education. Dr Bista is the founding editor of the Journal of International Students, a quarterly publication on international education. Rosalind Latiner Raby is a senior lecturer in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies department at the Michael E. Eisner College of Education at California State University, Northridge. She is also the director of a non-profit consortia, California Colleges for International Education that serves the California community colleges. Dr Raby is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education. Shyam Sharma is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr Sharma is the editor of the International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education . In addition to having published in a variety of venues about writing in the academic disciplines, cross-cultural rhetoric, and new media in higher education, he contributes a regular column for the Republica about higher education in Nepal.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributor
Acknowledgments
Foreword (Sabnam Koirala-Nawaj)
Section I: Introduction
1. Telling Stories, Generating Perspectives: Local-Global Dynamics in
Nepalese Higher education. (Krishna Bista, Shyam Sharma, Rosalind L. Raby)
Section II: Socio-economic Contexts and Issues
2. Higher Education and Economic Development in Nepal. (Amrit Thapa and
Ujjwala Maharjan)
3. Progress and Lags in Educational Attainment in Nepal. (Shyam Thapa)
4. Understanding Policies, Priorities, and Roles: Higher Education in Nepal
at Crossroad. (Suresh Gautam, Prakash C. Bhattarai, and Tanka Nath Sharma)
5. Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and Higher Education Choice in Nepal. (Damodar
Khanal)
6. Faculty and student experience of earthquakes in Nepal: Crisis
management recommendation in Nepalese higher education. (Rajendra Joshi &
Herbert Fynewever)
Section III: Globalization and Global Issues
7. Brain Drain and Higher Education in Nepal. (Bhesh Raj Mainali)
8. Diaspora and Capacity Building in Higher Education in Nepal: An
Entrepreneurial Perspectives. (Dinesh Gajurel and Basu Sharma)
9. Nepalese Recruiting Agents for Overseas Higher Education: Issues and
Challenges. (Krishna Bista)
10. Higher Education: Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal. (Monica L. Lakhwani)
Section IV: Important Trends and Changes
11. Making the Shifts to Change the System: Implementing Semester System
through Pedagogical Training in Tribhuvan University. (Sudha Tripathi,
Shyam Sharma and Surendra Subedi)
12. Decentralized and Autonomous Higher Education in Nepal: How Nepalese
Higher Education Derived These Names and Legitimacy. (Nitya Nanda Timsina)
13. Open University of Nepal Initiative: Lessons Learned from Designing an
Institution of Higher Learning. (Pramod Dhakal, Drona Rasali, Ambika
Adhikari, and Raju Adhikari)
Section V: Disciplinary and Social Perspectives 14. Nepal's Journalism
Education in Tertiary Level and the Role of Diaspora Scholars. (Bhanubhakta
Acharya)
15. A Situated Discourse: How Writing is Defined and Taught in Higher
Education in Nepal. (Santosh Khadka)
16. Community Colleges and Youth Mobilization: Assessing the 21st Century
Workforce Development in Nepal. (Krishna Bista and Uttam Gaulee)
Section VI: Paths Forward
17. Redesigning Higher Education in Nepal. (Shyam Sharma)
18. Privatizing Higher Education of Nepal: Problems and Possibilities.
(Bala Raju Nikku)
19. Promising innovations in Teacher Professional Development through the
Application of ICTs and Open and Distance Learning. (Ellen Carm)
Section VII: Conclusion20. Complexities of Higher Education in Nepal
(Rosalind L. Raby, Shyam Sharma, Krishna Bista)
Index