Yvette Rosser

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Yvette Rosser
Portrait of Yvette Rosser
Portrait of Yvette Rosser
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Other namesRam Rani
Alma materUniversity of Texas
Websitehttp://yvetterosser.com/ [archive]

Yvette Claire Rosser (born January 31, 1952), is an American writer and scholar.

Education

Rosser first visited India in 1970, where she met her guru, Neem Karoli Baba,[1] who advised her to go to graduate school.[2] She subsequently attended the University of Texas at Austin, where her Master's thesis in the Department of Asian Studies examined the treatment of India in the social studies curriculum and how India and Hinduism are described in academic treatments. Her 2003 Ph.D. dissertation, Curriculum as Destiny: Forging National Identity in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, is a study of the politics of history in South Asia.

Career

Rosser is a co-creator of the International Day Without Violence held on April 4.[3] She is co-founder of the G. M. Syed Memorial Committee.[4] Its objectives are to educate the international community about G. M. Syed's message of non-violence, democracy, secularism, and the right to self-determination for Sindhis and other oppressed nations, and to advocate and support other organizations promoting human rights, religious tolerance, environmental responsibility, equal rights for women and religious minorities, as well as conflict resolution and peaceful initiatives in Sindh.

She is also on the advisory board of the Baacha Khan Research Centre in Baacha Khan Markaz, Peshawar; and founder of the Badshah Khan Peace Initiative (BKPI), a worldwide movement to promote the life's teachings of Abdul Ghaffar Khan.[citation needed]

She is also known as Ram Rani.[5][5]

Wikipedia bias and censorship

An anti-Hindu editor, Hornplease, made false allegations about her on the page. Later, the page was deleted (after some unsuccessful deletion attempts).

Publications

Articles and chapters

  • Rosser, Yvette C. (Spring 1996). "Pervasive Pedagogical Paradigms". SAGAR (South Asian Graduate Research Journal). 3 (1).
  • Rosser, Yvette C. (October 1997). "Sindh Memories". Daily Sindh (in Sindhi). Hyderabad, Pakistan.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
    • "Sindh Memories," translated into Sindhi, published in Daily Sindh, Hyderabad, Pakistan, Oct. 1997
  • Rosser, Yvette C. (July 2001). "Pakistani Perspectives of India". MANUSHI: A Journal About Women and Society. New Delhi.
  • Rosser, Yvette C. (Fall 2001). "Internationalizing Teacher Education: Preparedness to Teach About India". Teaching South Asia. Project South Asia at Missouri Southern State College. ISSN 1529-8558 [archive].
  • Rosser, Yvette C. (2003). "Contesting Historiographies in South Asia: The Islamization of Pakistani Social Studies Textbooks". In Saha, Santosh (ed.). Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World: Critical Social and Political Issues. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-0760-7.
  • Rosser, Yvette C. (2006). "Cognitive Dissonance: Confusing Discourse in Pakistani Studies Textbooks". Troubled Times: Sustainable Development and Governance in the Age of Extremes. Islamabad: Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). ISBN 978-9698784409.
  • Cognitive Dissonance in Pakistan Studies Textbooks: Educational Practices of an Islamic State. Journal of Islamic State Practices in International Law Vol. 1, Issue 2, June 2005, ISSN 1742-4941 [3] [archive]
  • “Contesting Historiographies in South Asia: The Islamization of Pakistani Social Studies”, Textbooks Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World: Critical Social and Political Issues, ed. Santosh Saha, Lexington Books, 2003.
  • “Internationalizing Teacher Education: Preparedness to Teach About India,” Teaching South Asia, editor Karl J. Schmidt, Project South Asia, Missouri Southern State College, premier edition, Fall 2001.
  • “Pakistani Perspectives of India,” MANUSHI: A Journal About Women and Society, New Delhi, July, 2001.
  • "Troubled Times: Sustainable Development and Governance in the Age of Extremes". Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad, 2004 [4] [archive]

"Pakistani Textbooks -Teaching Cognitive Dissonance", The Friday Times, Lahore, Pakistan, 3/2005

"Contesting Historiographies in South Asia", Religious Fundamentalism in the Contemporary World, Santosh Saha, ed., Lexington Books, 2004

"Internationalizing Teacher Education: Preparedness to Teach About India", Teaching South Asia, ed. Karl J. Schmidt, Project South Asia, Missouri Southern State College, Fall 2001; See: http://www.mssu.edu/projectsouthasia/tsa/VIN1/Rosser.htm [archive].

"Pakistani Perspectives of India", MANUSHI, New Delhi, July 2001

"Franklin Wayland Parker" biographical entry in Historical Dictionary of American Education, Richard J. Altenbaugh, ed., Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999

"General Zia, May He Rest in Pieces," SANGAT, Oct. 1997, journal of Pakistani culture

"They'll Give You a Typewriter Instead of a Gun -- The Impact of W.W. II on a Rural Texas Community", Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society, 1998

[5] [archive] The Groan - Loss of scholarship and high drama in south asian studies - Yvette Rosser [archive] [6] [archive]

Books

Notes

  1. Rao, Ramesh N. (2003). IDRF, let the facts speak. Friends of India. p. 30.
  2. Rosser, Yvette Claire (2003). "Curriculum as Destiny: Forging National Identity in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh". p. iv.
  3. "Mahatma Gandhi Peace Walk in Texas: "The International Week Without Violence", April 2 - 7, 2001" [archive]. InfinityFoundation.com. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
  4. "G M Syed Memorial Committee" [archive]. Sindhudesh.com. World Sindhi Congress. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
  5. 5.0 5.1 Melwani, Lavina (April–June 2004). "Oh, For a Fair View of Hinduism...". Hinduism Today. pp. 18–20.

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