scholarly journals Full Issue : Linking Differential Equations to Social Justice and Environmental Concerns

CODEE Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-144
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Environmental Concerns

Independent Regulatory Authorities: Contours of the Debate and Experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 358-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolly Arora
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Significant Variation ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Functional Expression ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regulatory Authorities

Taking note of the rapid growth of independent regulatory authorities and emerging evidence of significant variation in their design features as well as functional expression of independence across nations and within nations, sectors and levels of government, this article argues that regulatory discourses, including their institutional design and functionality, need to be understood in their specific political economy context and in the framework of larger goals of social justice and sustainable development, taking care of accountability, equity and environmental concerns that invite urgent attention. This would require a reopening of the debate on the parameters for evaluation of regulatory goals and design issues in the public domain involving all stakeholders. Rather than debating the extent of independence accomplished, one needs to consider the framework of regulation and the mechanisms which can address the challenge of competing rights claims in unequal power contexts.

Environment Education in Indian Schools: The Search for a New Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-189
Author(s):  
Carol D’Souza ◽  
Milind Brahme ◽  
M. Suresh Babu
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
National Council ◽  
Water Crisis ◽  
Indian Schools ◽  
And Training ◽  
Shed Light

This article analyses the National Council of Educational Research and Training textbooks of environmental studies using critical discourse analysis to shed light on questions such as how the environment is dealt with in the text, using what kind of language are environmental concerns framed, how is the current environment crisis contextualized both in terms of ecological and social justice, if at all, and what solutions are suggested in this regard. The article finds that though the content of the textbooks exhibits strong social contextualizing of learners’ surroundings, the thrust is anthropocentric, and the environment figures only as a peripheral concern. Themes such as gender, caste, hygiene, culture, equality and discrimination emerge stronger than those of biodiversity, conservation, pollution, water crisis and global warming. While the in-built thrust on conviviality in the textbooks is necessary and heartening, a better infusion of the current predicament in terms of the environment crisis and how it could be mitigated is recommended.

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