Browsing by Author "Jha, Jyotsna"

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    Book Review : Gender, Sex and Tech! An Intersectional Feminist Guide
    (2024-07-21) Jha, Jyotsna; Panda, Santosh
    This book is a collection of 14 essays and one introductory and one conclusions chapter, written by scholars cutting across different institutions in Canada, and engages with diverse dimensions of gender, sex and technology. Exploring interdisciplinary, feminist, intersectional and decolonising methods and approaches, the chapters in the 300-plus page book are divided into five themes of “Disrupt”, “Connect”, “Surveillance”, “Bodies” and “Reclaim”. The book emanated from working on developing a course on the same theme and was written primarily as a resource for teachers, students and research scholars and, therefore, refers to itself as a guide. What allows it to be a real guide is the fact that each chapter is accompanied by sections on “Questions for Discussion”, “Invitations to go Deeper”, “Read More” and “Listen More, Watch More”, in addition to References. These sections also follow the same theoretical backdrop as the essays, and encourage readers to explore questions about their experiences vis-à-vis their identities and interactions with technologies both in their personal and professional lives, and also both as individuals and members of a community.
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    Boys' Underachievement in Education: An Exploration in Selected Commonwealth Countries
    (2006) Jha, Jyotsna; Kelleher, Fatimah; Johnson, Tina
    Gender disparity in education has usually been experienced as disadvantaging girls. Although this continues to be the case in many places, the phenomenon of boys' underachievement - both in terms of participation and performance - has also become an issue in a number of countries. This book reviews the research on boys' underachievement and presents the arguments that have been put forward to understand its causes. The authors also present new studies from Australia, Jamaica, Lesotho and Samoa; and they use both the research and the evidence from the case studies to explore the causes and policy implications of this trend - the first time a truly cross-regional approach has been applied to the issue. Dr. Tony Sewell conducted the studies in the selected Commonwealth countries. This research was part of the 15th triennial Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (15CCEM, 2003) agenda and reports to 16CCEM (2006) on how open and distance learning methodologies can alleviate the problem of boys' education in circumstances where under-achievement is evident. This book will interest all education policy makers and analysts concerned to ensure gender equality in school education.
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    Reflections on COL in India
    (2024-02-08) Scott, Peter; Balaji, Venkataraman; Shadrach, B; Jha, Jyotsna; Mays, Tony
    Presentation by COL to Consul General of India, COL Headquarters, Metro Vancouver, Canada, 8 February 2024.