Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction: Conceptualising Knowledge Society: Critical Dimensions and Ideal Image; I. Knowledge Society and Its Emergence; II. Key Dimensions of Knowledge Society; Skilled, Educated and Flexible to Adaptation; Strategic Planning, Promoting Innovation and Networking; Representing the Leading Class; Experiencing Variety of Choices; Creation of Demand for Own Product; Sustenance of Knowledge Workers; Knowledge Workers Replacing Agricultural and Industrial Workers. Contradiction Encountered by Knowledge WorkersIII. Knowledge Society: The Popular Vision; Society of Progress, Rationality and Positive Action and Thought; Society with Waves of Shocks, Disorientation and Discontinuity; The Newness in Knowledge Society; New Social Divisions and Mobility; New Focus of Social Conflicts and Identity; New Network of Power; IV. Knowledge Society: State, Market and Knowledge; Questioning Hierarchy of Knowledge; 2 Critiquing and Contextualising Knowledge Society; I. Questioning the Notion of Newness/Discontinuity in Knowledge Society. II. Critiquing Popular Image of Knowledge SocietyIII. Postmodernity, Hypermodernity and Beyond; IV. Contextualising the Contradiction; V. Continuity and Change in India: Problematising Marginalisation, Identity and Fluidity; 3 Strategising for Knowledge Society in India: The Shifting Backdrops and Emerging Contexts; I. The Changing Landscape; Technological Transformation; Shift in the State Perspectives on Economic Transformation; The Demographic Transition; II. Envisioning an Era of Hope and Global Integration with It. III. The Challenges to and Strategies for Expansion of Knowledge Society in IndiaIV. Nonstate Initiatives for Knowledge Society; V. Old Challenges in the New Context; 4 Education for Knowledge Society in India; I. Education as a Critical Investment and Mainstreaming Mechanism; Increasing in Public Expenditure in Education; II. Expansion of the Educational Institutions in India; Increasing Gross Enrolment Ratio; III. The Foundation Stone: State of Expansion of Literacy and Elementary Education; Gender, Caste and Regional Divides in Educational Expansion in India. IV. The Secondary and Vocational Education: Emerging New HorizonV. Higher and Technical Education in India: Unfolding New Horizons and Challenges; A Paradigm Shift in Higher Education; VI Mass Education: Open and Distance Learning; VII Emerging Challenges in Higher Education; Resource Crunch; Massive Faculty Crunch; Lack of Quality Assurance and Absence of Students Choice; Crisis in the ODL system; Unequal Social and Regional Spread of Higher Education in India; VIII. Changing Educational Background of Work Force; 5 Information and Communication Technologies for Knowledge Society.

Examines the commodification of knowledge and its mass production, the proliferation of knowledge workers, and the importance of information and communication technologies