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ZHCES organises a seminar by Dr. Sushree Panigrahi

ZHCES organises a seminar by Dr. Sushree Panigrahi

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ZAKIR HUSIAN CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
NEW DELHI

 

Education in India Seminar on

 

Narratives from the field

Gendered hierarchies, social mobility and political activism in higher educational institutions

 

by

DR. SUSHREE PANIGRAHI

 
Date: Wednesday, 15th June 2022
Time: 11.30 AM to 01.00 PM
Venue: Room No. 207, ZHCES/SSS II

 

Abstract: Social change and social mobility are central to the idea of education. This is to be achieved not only through pedagogy,and curricula but also through rules, regulations and policies that govern higher education institutions. The talk will focus on how the institutionalisation of behaviour related to gender norms takes place in HEIs, expressed through hostel regulations, monitoring and penalising certain behaviour. The second aspect that will be discussed is the perception regarding caste and reservation among teachers- the changing student composition in classrooms, social mobility through education and also caste groups among teachers. The talk will draw upon the field work done across 30 universities and engineering institutes in 2019-2021 in which 627 students and 118 teachers were interviewed.

 

Speaker: Dr. Sushree Panigrahi is the author of Ideology, Conflict and State Control in Higher Education: A Sociological Analysis, Sage (2022) and was a Senior Fellow at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies, New Delhi


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A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.