Papers by Premraj Bhandari
KMC Journal, 2022
This article explores the teachers' behaviour and students' experiences in multicultural classroo... more This article explores the teachers' behaviour and students' experiences in multicultural classrooms in Nepal. Applying the phenomenological qualitative research design, we selected two schools from the study area that have a more diversified population. Data was collected through in-depth interviews with the teachers and students, and a focus group discussion with the students. We used a thematic data analysis procedure to analyze the data. This study found that the schools' policies are unable to address the needs of culturally different children. The schools have focused on providing economic support to the students rather than addressing their cultural needs. We found that the traditional training packages for teachers were insufficient to deal with multicultural classrooms. Because of a lack of knowledge of cultural, language, and feelings of students' and families' background, teachers were unable to deal with the students properly. Although the teachers were sincere on cultural issues nowadays, at the beginning of their career, their practices were not child-friendly. At the same time, we found that the experiences of students were also disgraceful in the school related to culture and language. They had difficulties in classroom adjustment because of being a different culture, they had problems in proper pronunciation and tongue in the Nepali language.
The main objective of this study is to discuss the perspectives of school change. This study is a... more The main objective of this study is to discuss the perspectives of school change. This study is a theoretical analysis and based on document review. The concept of educational change is described as school improvement. It is one of the ways to address the changing social needs through the technological, political, and cultural change of the school. School improvement or change is to change the school system as a whole for the attainment of better results, but questions arise about how to change, who is to change, and what to change and answers are varied and complicated. The concept of educational change is multidimensional. The perspective of technological change focuses on well-equipped classrooms and the use of information communication technology. The perspective political change fosters on power, authority, and interests of people. The cultural viewpoint asserts that the values, norms, and behaviour influence the organizational performance and unless changing it, the system can...
Journal of Education and Practice, 2019
Gender is a wide spread issue in the world. Male domination and oppression, gender biasness, gend... more Gender is a wide spread issue in the world. Male domination and oppression, gender biasness, gender discrimination, and gender stereotypes are the main issues that are related to gender discussion. In developing countries gender is in the worst forms. In this context, this article aims to assess the gender differences in educational leadership in Nepal. For this, purposive sampling was used and two female principals from public and private schools each were taken as the sample. Intensive interviews were conducted with the principals and data were gathered. Discussions are based on literatures and two theories-radical feminism and symbolic interactionism. It is found that females had different experiences from the beginning of childhood and later these experiences had resulted different behaviour, working style and perspectives about self and about the world. These factors made females different than males. Because of gender discrimination and gender biased behaviour of the society female principals has to face many challenges and problems in their field.
scholars' journal, 2021
The main objective of this study is to discuss the perspectives of school change. This study is a... more The main objective of this study is to discuss the perspectives of school change. This study is a theoretical analysis and based on document review. The concept of educational change is described as school improvement. It is one of the ways to address the changing social needs through the technological, political, and cultural change of the school. School improvement or change is to change the school system as a whole for the attainment of better results, but questions arise about how to change, who is to change, and what to change and answers are varied and complicated. The concept of educational change is multidimensional. The perspective of technological change focuses on well-equipped classrooms and the use of information communication technology. The perspective political change fosters on power, authority, and interests of people. The cultural viewpoint asserts that the values, norms, and behaviour influence the organizational performance and unless changing it, the system cannot be changed. School change is necessary for the Nepalese context and in doing so, all the three perspectives technological, political, and cultural are necessary to address. The technological part of the school system is nearly very poor, the party politics in schools is influencing the authority and the school culture is not favourable to address the changing needs of the society. So, all the dimensions are needed to be taken into consideration to change the school system in Nepal.
IISTE, 2019
Gender is a wide spread issue in the world. Male domination and oppression, gender biasness, gend... more Gender is a wide spread issue in the world. Male domination and oppression, gender biasness, gender discrimination, and gender stereotypes are the main issues that are related to gender discussion. In developing countries gender is in the worst forms. In this context, this article aims to assess the gender differences in educational leadership in Nepal. For this, purposive sampling was used and two female principals from public and private schools each were taken as the sample. Intensive interviews were conducted with the principals and data were gathered. Discussions are based on literatures and two theories-radical feminism and symbolic interactionism. It is found that females had different experiences from the beginning of childhood and later these experiences had resulted different behaviour, working style and perspectives about self and about the world. These factors made females different than males. Because of gender discrimination and gender biased behaviour of the society female principals has to face many challenges and problems in their field.
Gender is a wide spread issue in the world. Male domination and oppression, gender biasness, gend... more Gender is a wide spread issue in the world. Male domination and oppression, gender biasness, gender discrimination, and gender stereotypes are the main issues that are related to gender discussion. In developing countries gender is in the worst forms. In this context, this article aims to assess the gender differences in educational leadership in Nepal. For this, purposive sampling was used and two female principals from public and private schools each were taken as the sample. Intensive interviews were conducted with the principals and data were gathered. Discussions are based on literatures and two theories-radical feminism and symbolic interactionism. It is found that females had different experiences from the beginning of childhood and later these experiences had resulted different behaviour, working style and perspectives about self and about the world. These factors made females different than males. Because of gender discrimination and gender biased behaviour of the society female principals has to face many challenges and problems in their field.
Education is well known as an instrument for preparing the children to combat the challenges of t... more Education is well known as an instrument for preparing the children to combat the challenges of the
present and future life. It is possible if the education system is effective and efficient. The effective school
organizations need effective school head teacher as its leaders. The ineffectiveness of the school system is
being the cause of the wastage of money and other resources. Effective learning is termed differently but
knowledge, skills, character, and metacognition are the major areas of effective learning and effective
leadership is an improvement in students’ learning, capacity building of an organization, collaboration,
and mutuality among stakeholders, making learning organization, and change the culture and values
of organization (organizational development). In Nepal, the public education system is being the Black
Hole, where money is poured without a specific return. It is because of ineffective school leadership and
lack of proper policies in the selection and appointment of the head teacher and de-motivated and party
politicalized teachers
The Third Eye, 2020
Nepal is recognized as a multicultural and multilingual country. In this respect, in order to bri... more Nepal is recognized as a multicultural and multilingual country. In this respect, in order to bring social and cultural harmony among different social and cultural groups, it is necessary to equip them with cultural literacy. Cultural literacy, in this article, refers to the knowledge and skill of respecting and valuing all the cultures in the society. For this, the provision of cultural literacy components in the school curriculum is the starting point. The objective of this article is to analyse social studies curriculum of grades 6 to 8 of Nepal from cultural literacy perspective. From the analysis it is found that the social studies curriculum of grades 6 to 8 has addressed some of the cultural aspects but minority culture is not represented as well as majority culture in the school curriculum.
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Papers by Premraj Bhandari
present and future life. It is possible if the education system is effective and efficient. The effective school
organizations need effective school head teacher as its leaders. The ineffectiveness of the school system is
being the cause of the wastage of money and other resources. Effective learning is termed differently but
knowledge, skills, character, and metacognition are the major areas of effective learning and effective
leadership is an improvement in students’ learning, capacity building of an organization, collaboration,
and mutuality among stakeholders, making learning organization, and change the culture and values
of organization (organizational development). In Nepal, the public education system is being the Black
Hole, where money is poured without a specific return. It is because of ineffective school leadership and
lack of proper policies in the selection and appointment of the head teacher and de-motivated and party
politicalized teachers
present and future life. It is possible if the education system is effective and efficient. The effective school
organizations need effective school head teacher as its leaders. The ineffectiveness of the school system is
being the cause of the wastage of money and other resources. Effective learning is termed differently but
knowledge, skills, character, and metacognition are the major areas of effective learning and effective
leadership is an improvement in students’ learning, capacity building of an organization, collaboration,
and mutuality among stakeholders, making learning organization, and change the culture and values
of organization (organizational development). In Nepal, the public education system is being the Black
Hole, where money is poured without a specific return. It is because of ineffective school leadership and
lack of proper policies in the selection and appointment of the head teacher and de-motivated and party
politicalized teachers