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Background information

Encyclopaedia of educational development / James C. Laurence.
New Delhi, India : Rajat Publications, 2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB14.7 .L38 2010 V.1
Encyclopedia of India / Stanley A. Wolpert, editor in chief.
Detroit : Charles Scribner's Sons : Thomson Gale, 2005.
Green Library » Information Center » DS405 .E556 2005 V.1
The Routledge international companion to multicultural education / edited by James A. Banks.
New York : Routledge, 2009.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1099 .R685 2009
The Routledge international handbook of lifelong learning / edited by Peter Jarvis.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5225 .L42 R68 2009
World education encyclopedia [electronic resource] : a survey of educational systems worldwide / Rebecca Marlow-Ferguson, editor and project coordinator ; Chris Lopez, associate editor.
2nd ed. Farmington Hills, MI : Gale Group, 2002-
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New books

Education and society in comparative context : the essence of outdoor-oriented education in the USA and India / Eija Kimonen.
Rotterdam, Netherlands ; Boston : Sense Publishers, c2015.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1047 .K54 2015
Secularism, Islam and education in India, 1830-1910 / by Robert Ivermee.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » BL2765 .I5 I84 2016
Madrasa and terrorism : myth or reality / Md. Mukhtar Alam.
New Delhi : Indian Social Institute, ©2004.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC910 .I4 A52 2004
Gendered impact of globalization of higher education : promoting human development in India / Geeta Nair.
Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2326 .N35 2015
Education, poverty and gender : schooling Muslim girls in India / Latika Gupta.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2327 .G87 2015
Faces of discrimination in higher education in India : quota policy, social justice and the Dalits / Samson K. Ovichegan.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212.43 .I4 O85 2015
Contested politics of educational reform in India : aligning opportunities with interests / Manisha Priyam.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC94 .I4 P75 2015
Curriculum studies in India : intellectual histories, present circumstances / edited by William F. Pinar.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1564 .I4 C89 2015
Women education, health and mobility status / by Suchitra S. Kumar (Associate Professor of Economics, G.N. Khalsa College, Mumbai).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2322 .K86 2014
Ethnographies of schooling in contemporary India / edited by Meenakshi Thapan.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC191.8 .I4 E84 2014
Education and hegemony : social construction of knowledge in India in the era of globalisation / by Nagaraju Gundemeda.
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » T58.5 .G835 2014
Livelihoods and learning : education for all and the marginalisation of mobile pastoralists / Caroline Dyer.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC4065 .D94 2014
Empire education, and indigenous childhoods : nineteenth-century missionary infant schools in three British colonies / Helen May (University of Otago, New Zealand), Baljit Kaur (Canada), Larry Prochner (University of Alberta, Canada).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LA411.7 .M39 2014
"They say we're dirty" : denying an education to India's marginalized / Human Rights Watch.
[New York] : Human Rights Watch, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC191.8 .I4 H86 2014
Hindi is our ground, English is our sky : education, language, and social class in contemporary India / Chaise LaDousa.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC315 .I4 L33 2014
Who's asking? : Native science, Western science, and science education / Douglas L. Medin and Megan Bang.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » E59 .S35 M43 2014
Rabindranath Tagore : adventure of ideas and innovative practices in education / Kumkum Bhattacharya.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LA1151 .B43 2014
Beyond inclusion : the practice of equal access in Indian higher education / editors, Satish Deshpande, Usha Zacharias.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC213.53 .I4 B49 2013
Early childhood education, postcolonial theory, and teaching practices and policies in India : balancing Vygotsky and the Veda / Amita Gupta.
Revised edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1507 .G85 2013
Education loan and inclusive growth : India in a comparative perspective / by Jacob John.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2342.2 .I4 J64 2013
The light of knowledge : literacy activism and the politics of writing in South India / Francis Cody.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC157 .I52 C63 2013
Education and federalism in India / M.R. Kolhatkar.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC94 .I4 K65 2012
Implementing national qualifications frameworks across five continents / edited by Michael Young and Stephanie Matseleng Allais.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5225 .A75 I47 2013
International aid and private schools for the poor : smiles, miracles and markets / Pauline Dixon.
Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC213.3 .D44 D59 2013
Sociology of education in India : changing contours and emerging concerns / edited by Geetha B. Nambissan, S. Srinivasa Rao.
New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC206 .I4 S63 2013
Segregation hurts : voices of youth with disabilities and their families in India / Pavan John Antony.
Rotterdam ; Boston : Sense Publishers, c2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC4037 .I4 A58 2013
Higher education in India : in search of equality, quality and quantity / edited by Jandhyala B.G. Tilak.
New Delhi : Orient Blackswan, 2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LA1153 .H54 2013
Reflections in education / editors, Habibullah Shah, Firdous Ahmad Sofal.
1st ed. New Delhi : New Delhi Publishers, 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028.3 .R44 2012

Journals

Annual status of education report, rural : ASER = Asara / prepared by Pratham.
v. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5148 .I4 A562 2014
Compare.
[Oxford, Eng., etc.] Carfax Publishing Co. [etc.]
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International education.
Knoxville, College of Education, University of Tennessee.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » 370.5 .I63 V.38 2008/2009
International journal of educational sciences.
Delhi : Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2009-
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Databases

Education databases

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-
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Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.
Education full text [electronic resource].
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.
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Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.
Education week American education news site of record [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.
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Teachers College record book reviews [electronic resource].
Birmingham, AL : Teachers College Record
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » eResource
"Teachers College Record Book Reviews provides comprehensive reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields. "

Related databases

Intergovernmental organization search engine.
[Stanford, Calif.] : [Stanford University Library and Information Services, Jonsson Library of Government Documents]
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This is a search engine for those doing research into topics of interest to Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs). The IGO Search searches across hundreds of IGO websites, enabling users to research topics such as human rights, development, environment, education, HIV/AIDS and health from IGOs like the United Nations, World Bank, UN Development Program (UNDP), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), European Union, Organization of American States, the Asian Development Bank and many others.

Websites

Pratham (India)
"Pratham is the largest non governmental organization working to provide quality education to the underprivileged children of India. Pratham was established in 1994 to provide education to the children in the slums of Mumbai city. Since then, the organization has grown both in scope and geographical coverage."