Denzil Saldanha

Denzil Saldanha
Denzil Saldanha was formerly Professor, Sociology of Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. His research interests have been in the areas of social movements; voluntary social action groups and development organizations; and elementary, non-formal and adult education. He has been teaching, researching and contributing to policy in these areas for about four decades. He has served as a member of state and national level committees, on the board of several academic and developmental institutions and organizations and as a consultant to government funding agencies and international organizations. His publications cover the interest areas mentioned above, some recent books being Education of Adolescents for Development in India: The Case of Doosra Dashak, 2007 and Civil Society Processes and the State: The BGVS and the Literacy Campaigns, 2010. A running concern in his writings has been an attempt to understand the role of human subjectivity in processes of social transformation.
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