Research
Interests:
Social stratification and education; collective action and
political
culture; civic education; late
industrial societies; social theory; participative research.
Some
Recent Publications:
Forthcoming: "Indian higher education and the need for critical knowledges".
With Alex M. George Teaching Social Science in Schools: NCERT's new textbook initiative, 2009, New Delhi: Sage.
"Sociologizing merit", Economic and Political Weekly, vol 42, no 29, July 21, 2007, pp 3044-3050.
"Between
love, domination and reason: Civic education and its 'Others' in
central India", Contemporary
Education Dialogue,
Vol. 2, No. 2, Spring 2005, pp 170-192.
" Old
and new dilemmas in Indian civic
education", Economic
and
Political
Weekly, vol 38, no 44, Nov.
1, 2003, pp 4655-4660.
Work
Experience:
August
2003 - December 2003 Visiting
Fellow at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute
of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. There I taught a course on the social
context of education and conducted research.
February
2000 - July 2003 Research
Associate with Eklavya at its Hoshangabad field centre. There I was
conducting a participative field study on local modes of public action,
and working toward a fundamental rethinking of civic education. Other
major areas of activity included the design of culturally relevant
curricula and teaching/learning materials in Civics, teacher training,
running village libraries, computer aided learning, computers in local
development, science education through tv, etc.
1996 - 2000 Assistant Professor / Assistant Director at the Academic
Staff College, JNU (ad-hoc 1996-98). My duties involved executive
charge
of the the Academic Staff College, organizing courses, lecturing, etc.
I gave classes on the anthropology of higher education in India,
research methods and the use of computers and internet for research.
Educational
Qualifications:
Ph.D.
2000, under Avijit Pathak at the Centre for the Study of Social
Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
Delhi. M.Phil., too, under Avijit Pathak.
M.Sc. in Anthropology, specializing in social anthropology, from Panjab
University,
Chandigarh.
B.Sc. in Life Sciences, from Government Mahindra
College, Patiala.
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