03595nam a22002057a 4500 20180919145603.0 180919b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781107065451 303.48330954 SIN Debal K SinghaRoy Towards a knowledge society : new identities in emerging India /Debal K SinghaRoy New York : Cambridge University Press. , 2014 xviii, 379 pages ;24 cm. 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 Social Sciences Knowledge economy Information society Debal K SinghaRoy CPT 50218 50218 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2018-09-19 1 1 303.48330954 SIN CP24 2026-12-04 2026-10-31 14:46:10 2026-10-31 2018-09-19 CPT