The Crisis Within - G. N. Devy

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Résumé :
Nearly one in every twelve humans is a young Indian for whom meaningful education is of critical importance. A good education will not only help our youth get jobs and build fulfilling careers, it will also lead to the widening of our collective imagination and the shaping of the way we think...

Biographie:
G. N. Devy is currently the Obaid Siddiqi Chair Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, and was previously Director, Adivasi Academy, Tejgadh, and Professor of English at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. He led the People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), a comprehensive documentation of all living Indian languages, forming a fiftyvolume PLSI Series. He has received several awards for his writing as well as for his community work, including the Padma Shri, Prince Claus Award, and Linguapax Award. His English publications include After Amnesia, Of Many Heroes, Painted Words, Nomad Called Thief, The Question of Silence, Countering Violence, The Crisis Within: On Knowledge and Education in India, andMahabharata: The Epic and the Nation. Tony Joseph writes on ancient Indian history and is the author of Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From. He has been the Editor of Businessworld, Associate Editor of Business Standard, and Features Editor of the Economic Times at various times. He is currently working on a sequel to Early Indians. Ravi Korisettar is an archaeologist and Adjunct Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, and Honorary Director of the Robert Bruce Foote Sanganakallu Archaeological Museum, Ballari. He was formerly a professor of archaeology at Karnatak University, Dharwad. He is the author of Quaternary Environments and Geoarchaeology of India, Early Human Behaviour in Global Context, Indian Archaeology in Retrospect (four volumes), and Beyond Stones and More Stones (four volumes)....

Sommaire:
for all these reasons it ought to be an important concern of our time. Unfortunately, this is not the case. There is a lack of infrastructure, adequate funding and genuine autonomy within educational institutions, departments within those institutions, and individuals who teach in those departments. And this is not all. There is also the question of the nature of knowledge that is relevant to our rapidly modernizing country that needs to be dealt with. If knowledge is the core of education and if education lays the very foundation of a nation, the author argues that it is of critical importance that the plight of educational institutions and the need to generate knowledge appropriate to India are addressed without any delay. Original and profound, this book offers a clear picture of the mistakes that have been committed in the past, confronts the present decline of knowledge and education in the country and offers a vision for the future....