Contextualising Educational Studies in India (ePub)

Pradeep Kumar Choudhury teaches at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Previously, he worked at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development and Public Health Foundation of India. His research covers applied development economics, especially issues related to education, health and labour. Currently, he is collaborating with Delhi Research Implementation and Innovation (DRIIV) cluster ('Effective Education' vertical), coordinated by IIT Delhi, and sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He recently completed an international collaborative study with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, USA, that assesses and improves student learning in engineering and higher education in a comparative international perspective.

Suresh Babu G.S teaches at the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Before this, he was on faculty at the University of Jammu. His research focuses on the postcolonial debates of subaltern communities in India and investigates the role of education in shaping the cultural politics. He edited Education and the Public Sphere: Exploring the Structures of Mediation in Post-Colonial India (Routledge 2019).