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Rajeswari Sarala Raina 《Knowledge, Technology, and Policy》1999,11(4):69-96
This paper examines the role of evaluation in promoting and sustaining professionalism in agricultural research organizations.
The evaluation experience of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) reveals a series of attempts to review and
institutionalize the essential features of professionalism: expertise, credentialism, and autonomy. The central thesis is
that when evaluations inform or enable major changes in one or more of these features of professionalism, over a period of
time, it is a sign of increasing professionalization of research. Following a brief introduction, the evaluation experiences
of ICAR are examined in the context of the evolution of the profession of agricultural research. Specific evaluation experiences
are then analyzed, with an emphasis on the role of evaluation in resolving the tension between bureaucratic and professional
decision making. The paper concludes that unless stringent evaluations are introduced in ICAR, the professionalization of
agricultural research in India will remain incomplete.
Graduated in agricultural sciences at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, she obtained her doctoral degree at the Kerala
Agricultural University in 1994. She started her professional career as an agricultural extension officer at the State Department
of Agriculture in Kerala. She has published on research organization, measurement of research efforts, history and evolution
of agricultural science, priority setting, research decision-making, and reforms in agricultural education and training. Her
current research focuses on impact of soil-science technologies, development of key disciplines in agricultural chemistry
within an evolutionary economics perspective, and institutional and policy implications of changes in agricultural science. 相似文献
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This paper analyses how agricultural policy and science deal with the problem of increasing exploitation of low quality irrigation
water and consequent deterioration of water quality in the States of Punjab and Haryana in India. In these cereal growing
tracts the policy objective of food security is translated into production technologies, price protection and subsidies. Deterioration
of water quality is countered with technocentric solutions. The paper argues that the response of science to the complexities
involved in natural resource problems or in the scientific understanding of farmers partial response to technological solutions
recommended to improve degraded resources, is due to the existing “administrative rationalism” of natural resource bureaucracies.
This administrative rationalism, “the problem-solving discourse which emphasizes the role of the expert rather than the citizen”
allows policy and science to maintain their hierarchy in determining policy goals and technological solutions with scant ecological
or democratic concerns. Sustainable use of water demands institutional reform in agricultural policy and the agricultural
sciences.
With an inter-disciplinary training in the agricultural sciences and economics, her publications address the history of and
institutional reform in agricultural science, the evaluation of agricultural research, and the organization and measurement
of agricultural research effort. This paper is based on an in-house project on “Ex-post evaluation of soil science technologies,” conducted during 1997–2001, in collaboration with Sunita Sangar (then QHS Fellow,
NISTADS) whose Ph.D. thesis on the same topic has been submitted to IIT, Delhi in January 2002. Sunita Sangar has a degree
in the life sciences, and is interested in science and technology policy issues related to soil and water resources. The authors
are currently working on the NATP sponsored project, on an ecological economics framework for the evaluation of soil science
research in India. 相似文献
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Rajeswari?NatrajanEmail author Nithyakala?Karuppaswamy Volker?Thomas Kamala?Ramadoss 《Contemporary Family Therapy》2005,27(3):415-434
Two family therapy training instruments, the Family Concept Assessment (FCA) and Rating Scale and Family Therapy Assessment Exercise (FTE), developed in the United States were adapted to suit the Indian cultural context. Several changes were made to the instruments while at the same time maintaining the equivalency of the scales to the original. Both the instruments were tested for face validity by a panel of cultural and content experts in the United States. The FTE was then pilot tested with an Indian sample. The psychometric properties of the adapted instrument are reported in this article including feedback from the participants. 相似文献
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In this article the first author (MG) examines her experiences, reflections, and questions after traveling to Kenya and then
attempting to integrate those experiences into her Western life. Using an autoethnographic format, different implications
for the author are explored as she becomes more culturally aware both of other ways of being as well as of her own identity.
MG publically shared her experiences on three different occasions, and then used a reflective stance to consider the implications
of the questions posed for her personally, for the therapy field, and for the meaning of maintaining multicultural competencies. 相似文献
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Mudita?RastogiEmail author Rajeswari?Natrajan Volker?Thomas 《Contemporary Family Therapy》2005,27(4):453-471
The practice of couple and family therapy has a long history in India. This article tracks some of the people, places, and
contexts associated with the growth of marriage and family therapy (MFT) as a profession in the Indian context. Two of the
authors outline their own introduction to MFT and work within this field in different cities in India in the last two decades.
Based on their professional experiences and a pilot study conducted in Chennai, the authors document the needs of providers
in the areas of systems-based therapy training and the practice of MFT. The role of the Indian Association for Family Therapy
(IAFT) and suggestions for the future growth of the field are also highlighted.
Mudita Rastogi, PhD, Professor, Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Argosy University, 1000 Plaza Drive Schaumburg,
IL 60173 (MuditaRastogi@hotmail.com). Rajeswari Natrajan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Alliant International University, 2500
Michelson Drive, Suite 250, Irvine, CA 92612-1548. Volker Thomas, PhD, Associate Professor, Purdue University, 1200 West State
Street, Fowler Memorial House, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1269.
*Portions of this paper are based on Rajeswari Natrajan’s dissertation at Purdue University.
**Rastogi and Natrajan share first authorship for this paper. 相似文献
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Shruti?PoulsenEmail author Nithyakala?Karuppaswamy Rajeswari?Natrajan 《Contemporary Family Therapy》2005,27(3):403-414
This is a reflective account of the experiences of the authors who immigrated to the United States from India at different developmental, historical, political, and social stages. Although their culture-of-origin was the same, the meaning and experience of immigration was different for each author. The narratives show a natural continuum of experiences based on their developmental stage during immigration, reasons for immigration, and the historical context of both India and the US at the time of immigration. A common theme is the ambivalence experienced by them in their process of creating a physical and psychological home in a different culture. 相似文献
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This qualitative study explored the needs of Indian middle-class families for family therapy services. Four focus group interviews were conducted with middle-class parents in Madras, India. Participants were introduced to the concept and practice of family therapy and were encouraged to take a more active role in supporting the services they suggested. Participants identified problems faced by Madras middle class families and five different types of services that they were aware of. Three categories of need for family therapy were identified from the narratives of the participants. Several themes fit in each of the three categories. Implications for clinical application are discussed. 相似文献
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Rajeswari Natrajan-Tyagi Nicole Sabatini Gutierrez Marlene Elizalde Vivian Mai Phan Jacquelyn F. Christensen Linda Crossley 《The American journal of family therapy》2016,44(5):221-233
Marriage and Family Therapy training programs use role-plays and simulations to train their students in interviewing skills and in various therapeutic models. A review of literature shows that these training tools do not allow student-therapists to experience therapy beyond the first session. This article presents a modified version of the role-play, in which a constant family is used in preparing student-therapists for clinical work. This article describes a training scenario using the constant family role play and includes feedback from student-therapists. The authors present the benefits, limitations, and potential training considerations that can enhance use of the constant family role play. 相似文献
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ABSTRACTIn this transcendental phenomenological study, we interviewed five South Asian American daughter–father dyads regarding their experiences of coping and resiliency in the aftermath of maternal/spousal loss. Mothers play a crucial role in immigrant families as they serve not only as caregivers, but also as the main people who facilitate the transmission of culture. An untimely death of mothers in immigrant families can lead to confusion of roles within the family subsystems. Three main themes emerged for daughters from the interviews: (a) re-grieving, (b) coping/resiliency, and (c) daughter’s relationship with father following maternal loss. Three themes also emerged from the interviews with the fathers: (a) lack of traditional sources of familial support, (b) coping/resiliency, and (c) relationship with daughter following spousal loss. We utilized dyadic analysis to examine the dynamics of the daughter–father relationship. Overall, in the aftermath of maternal loss, the families experienced significant reorganization in its structure and reassignment of roles. For many of the daughters, cultural norms of patriarchy and traditional gender roles explained their pattern of assuming more responsibility in the household after the death of their mothers. Findings also showed how the intersection of gender, culture, and immigration status contributed to the process of complicated grief following maternal loss and the struggles experienced with reorganization of familial roles, rules, and expectations for South Asian American daughters and their fathers. Results from this study have implications for future research and clinical practice. 相似文献
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