Member publications consists of articles and papers contributed by members of the Foundation to leading newspapers, magazines, and journals. Articles & Opinions and Bibliography comprise a repository of academic articles on education and other allied domains such as health, livelihoods and sustainability.
Member Publications
India Together
As the massive disaster in flood-stricken Uttarakhand unfolds, Himanshu Upadhyaya draws attention to the glaring inadequacies in disaster management preparedness and risk reduction in the state, as well as the nation, as exposed by recent...
Teachers of India
The author shows you how simple stick figure diagrams can be used in the classroom to enable contextualized learning.
‘Learning through fun’, ‘providing multi-sensory environment for effective learning’, ‘let the teacher be creative to...
Outlook
It is impossible to miss the large, floor-to-ceiling close-up shots of coy Indian brides and grooms on the restroom corridor walls at the Delhi international airport. Couples in Bengali, Kashmiri, Maharashtrian, Malayali, Punjabi and Tamil...
Azim Premji Foundation
A child’s schooling, as we have noted, is influenced by several
factors such as house hold factors, socioeconomic
factors and in-school factors. However, a quantitative study of school
dropouts highlights the influence of certain...
Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
Sustainable management of natural resources in small scale agriculture is a less debated issue, especially its governance aspects. Focusing on selected villages where a policy towards sustainable agriculture has been introduced in...
Indian Express
Apart from the annual lament of why Indian universities do not feature in the world’s top 200, there has been a recent clamour that “innovation and leadership” is a mantra to create outstanding centres of higher education. The ministry of...
Articles & Opinions
Bibliography
Public Policy in Early Childhood Education and Care
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy
May-2007
The paper has two main objectives. First, it presents an analytical framework for examining and developing policies for early childhood education and care (ECEC) in advanced industrialized countries.
Category: Early Childhood Education Policy
Bridging Research and Policy on Education, Training and their Enabling Environments
Journal of International Development
August-2005
This paper revisits the research origins of one well-known claim which has been used in policy documents over the past 25 years, namely that four years of education increase agricultural productivity.
Category: Sustainable Development