Browsing by Author "Baral, Raj Kumar"

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    Contribution of Child Care Centers to Early Childhood Development A case study from the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal
    (Faculty of Education, 2011) Baral, Raj Kumar
    This thesis explores the contribution of child care centers in Kathmandu valley to early childhood development. Relevant data was collected through questionnaires, interviews, observation, and discussion with over one hundred participants. A general review of pertinent literature is also included to gain perspective. A broad range of theoretical lenses were used to analyze and interpret the data including the perspectives of early childhood development, economic, cultural sociology, and psychology. Analysis of the data showed that commercial child care centers in Kathmandu are in crisis: they need to contribute more to mental and psychological development of the children. Due to economic constraints - they have inadequate materials, facilities, and number of teachers. To address these issues, the author suggests that a special authority be created immediately to monitor commercial childcare centers and create common standards for their operation. Additionally, a policy to include teachers and parents in the management of and decisions making procedures of CCCs should be implemented.
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    Contribution of child care centers to early childhood development; a case study from the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal
    (Faculty of Education Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2011-04) Baral, Raj Kumar
    This thesis explores the contribution of child care centers in Kathmandu valley to early childhood development. Relevant data was collected through questionnaires, interviews, observation, and discussion with over one hundred participants. A general review of pertinent literature is also included to gain perspective. A broad range of theoretical lenses were used to analyze and interpret the data including the perspectives of early childhood development, economic, cultural sociology, and psychology. Analysis of the data showed that commercial child care centers in Kathmandu are in crisis: they need to contribute more to mental and psychological development of the children. Due to economic constraints - they have inadequate materials, facilities, and number of teachers. To address these issues, the author suggests that a special authority be created immediately to monitor commercial childcare centers and create common standards for their operation. Additionally, a policy to include teachers and parents in the management of and decisions making procedures of CCCs should be implemented.
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    Excremental Vision: A Comparative Study of Swift's A Tale of a Tub and Soyinka's the Interpreters
    (Department of English, 2006) Baral, Raj Kumar
    To read Swift's A Tale of a Tub and Soyinka's The Interpreters is to decode the meaning of excremental vision which Swift exploits by using excremental images to satirize the malpractices and wrongheadedness of British colonizers in Ireland and Soyinka to look at Nigerian government which is not different from white colonial administration. Swift's frequent movement from tale through digression to further digression and allusions refers to the lawlessness in the ruling of Britishers and its effect on learning, religion, rationality, and philosophy. Soyinka with images of shit and faeces hits at the cancerous effects of post-colonial hegemony in post-Independent Nigeria. His characters like Sekoni and Sagoe are disillusioned because of their project killed by the forces of corruption. His post-colonial project presents post-independent Nigeria of 1960s as same as white colonial administration since malfunctionings prevail as the legacy of colonial administration.