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Technology has broadened learning opportunities for students in the
modern age. No longer limited by proximity and location, learners
can utilize online education environments to attain their advanced
degrees. Optimizing Open and Distance Learning in Higher Education
Institutions is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly
material on the development of e-learning programs and other
technologies in university settings. Highlighting numerous topics
such as quality assurance, learning measurement, and skill
training, this book is ideally designed for administrators,
teachers, academics, researchers, and professionals interested in
emerging trends for open and distance education.
Education plays a vital role in the positive development of
communities at both a local and global level. By becoming more
informed, citizens can make better contributions to society. Open
and Distance Learning Initiatives for Sustainable Development is a
critical reference source for emerging academic perspectives on the
role of higher education programs in contemporary society.
Including a range of pertinent topics such as mobile learning,
environmental education, and community building, this book is
ideally designed for educators, researchers, students, and
professionals interested in the intersection between sustainable
development and education.
SDG14 - Life Below Water: Towards Sustainable Management of Our
Oceans describes the dependence of human beings on shore and marine
resources and highlights how oceanic life sustains the livelihoods
of people living in coastal areas, affects global economy and plays
a significant role for making earth habitable. Chapters give
accounts of human interventions on oceanic life and demonstrate the
various ways in which the sustainability of the oceanic system is
threatened. Looking to sustainable management and protection of
marine and coastal ecosystems, chapters investigate best practices
initiated in different countries, address issues such as
overfishing and the legal framework for conservation and
sustainable use of oceans and their resources. Concise Guides to
the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals comprises 17 short
books, each examining one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The series provides an integrated assessment of the SDGs from
economic, legal, social, environmental and cultural perspectives.
Rising inequalities are a defining challenge of our times and a
crucial obstacle to the realization of the SDGs. The need to
accelerate steps towards the reduction of growing disparities
within and among countries is well realised. Responding to that
need, this book aims to understand the types, drivers, consequences
and impact of inequalities in broad contexts across groups and
individuals, as well as societies and states. Defining inequality
as the social, economic and political challenges of our time, the
authors examine SDG10 to look ahead at how policy action might
engage multiple stakeholders, involve diverse sectors and address
gaps between policy and implementation to tackle inequalities and
facilitate the advancement of the SDG agenda.
Conventional development planning lacks sensitivity to the female
experience. Tackling gendered discrimination and the exclusion of
women, SDG5 aims to 'achieve gender equality and empower all women
and girls.' This book considers the current state of play and
identifies the trends, drivers and impact of gender equality.
Taking a comprehensive and global approach, the book addresses the
multifaceted concerns of women within the overall paradigm of the
post-2015 development agenda. The authors analyse the patterns of
gender inequality in different socioeconomic regions across
developing, middle income and developed countries. The book will
examine how the gap between policy and implementation might be
tackled and contemplate how effective policy action might provide a
solution. Offering best practice and posing key challenges for
achieving the goal, this is the only book which comprehensively
deals with all the key aspects of SDG5 based on the latest credible
research. Concise Guides to the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals comprises 17 short books, each examining one of
the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The series provides an
integrated assessment of the SDGs from economic, legal, social,
environmental and cultural perspectives.
Stories are the backbone of ethnographic research. During
fieldwork, subjects describe their lives through stories. Afterward
ethnographers come home from their journeys with stories of their
own about their experiences in the field. Storytime in India is an
exploration of the stories that come out of ethnographic fieldwork.
Helen Priscilla Myers and Umesh Chandra Pandey examine the ways in
which their research collecting Bhojpuri wedding songs became
interwoven with the stories of their lives, their work together,
and their shared experience reading The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony
Trollope. Moving through these intertwined stories, the reader
learns about the complete Bhojpuri wedding tradition through songs
sung by Gangajali and access to the original song recordings and
their translations. In the interludes, Pandey reads and interprets
The Eustace Diamonds, confronting the reader with the ever-present
influence of colonialism, both in India and in ethnographic
fieldwork. Interwoven throughout are stories of the everyday,
highlighting the ups and downs of the ethnographic experience.
Storytime in India combines the style of the Victorian novel with
the structure of traditional Indian village tales, in which stories
are told within stories. This book questions how we can and should
present ethnography as well as what we really learn in the field.
As Myers and Pandey ultimately conclude, writers of scholarly books
are storytellers themselves and scholarly books are a form of art,
just like the traditions they study.
Stories are the backbone of ethnographic research. During
fieldwork, subjects describe their lives through stories. Afterward
ethnographers come home from their journeys with stories of their
own about their experiences in the field. Storytime in India is an
exploration of the stories that come out of ethnographic fieldwork.
Helen Priscilla Myers and Umesh Chandra Pandey examine the ways in
which their research collecting Bhojpuri wedding songs became
interwoven with the stories of their lives, their work together,
and their shared experience reading The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony
Trollope. Moving through these intertwined stories, the reader
learns about the complete Bhojpuri wedding tradition through songs
sung by Gangajali and access to the original song recordings and
their translations. In the interludes, Pandey reads and interprets
The Eustace Diamonds, confronting the reader with the ever-present
influence of colonialism, both in India and in ethnographic
fieldwork. Interwoven throughout are stories of the everyday,
highlighting the ups and downs of the ethnographic experience.
Storytime in India combines the style of the Victorian novel with
the structure of traditional Indian village tales, in which stories
are told within stories. This book questions how we can and should
present ethnography as well as what we really learn in the field.
As Myers and Pandey ultimately conclude, writers of scholarly books
are storytellers themselves and scholarly books are a form of art,
just like the traditions they study.
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