Prof. Padma M. Sarangapani | Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Prof. Padma M. Sarangapani

Professor
Mumbai Campus,
Chairperson, Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education,
School of Education

Qualification

M.Sc. (IIT-C), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Delhi)

Contact

psarangapani[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in

psarangapani@tiss.edu

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS: (selected fellowships, awards, and special assignments)

2019 OER Award 2019 for Excellence in Collaboration to CEIAR for CLIx

2018 UNESCO-King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education, awarded to the Connected Learning Initiative, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Project Leader). Awarded on 8, March 2018.

2016-2017 January 2016 Jury Member of the UNESCO-HAMDAAN Award

2014-2015 Commonwealth Academic Fellowship (at the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex, UK).

1999.2001 Indira Gandhi Memorial Fellowship, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi for study of indigenous knowledge transmission of the Baiga.

1993-'94 Fulbright pre-doctoral fellowship and Dudley-Wright Fellow (Wright Centre for Innovative Science Education, Tufts University)

1986-'88 (M.Sc.) IIT Madras, Merit scholarship for Post Graduate studies

1986 (B.Sc.) X in University; University Gold medal for I in Mathematics (agg.100%)

Baldinucci Gold Medal (for I rank in part I--English & French in College)

Professional Assignments

1. Member of the committee to develop Professional Standards for Teacher Education, NCTE (2021).

2. Expert in consultation workshop and expert group meeting on developing an International Guidance Framework for Professional Teaching Standards, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 18-19 March 2019.

3. Expert in plenary session 2: Teaching a Profession. Addressing Diversity: building teacher standards within a diversity of contexts and a vast population—the case of India. Teacher Task Force, UNESCO. 10th Policy Dialogue Forum. 18-21 September, 2017. Lome Togo.

4. Chairperson, Niti Ayog Working Group on Secondary Education (September 2017).

5. Member of the NIAS Council, (2016 onwards).

6.Member, Teacher Education Think Tank, SCERT Orissa (2012-2016).

7.Advisor (Education) to the TATA Trusts, (2014-2019).

8.Member of the Committee to form the Education Policy for Karnataka of the Karnataka Knowledge Commission, 2015-2016.

9.Nominated Member of the National Council for Teacher Education, NCTE. (2013-2016). Served on NCTE committee to formulate rules and regulations. And Chair of the NCTE committee on review and guidelines to regulate open and distance learning in Teacher Education.

10.Member, CABE Committee on National Mission on Teachers and Teaching, 2012-2013.

11.Member of Founding Editorial Collective, Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2002-2009 and Editor, CED, (2010-14) (now published by SAGE).

12. Member, International Editorial Board, British Journal of Sociology of Education, since 2011.

13.Chair of the Joint Review Mission of the Centrally Sponsored Teacher Education Mission to Madhya Pradesh, 2013.

14.Chair of the Committee to suggest indicative operational guidelines for strengthening and revitalization of sub-district level resource centres i.e. block resource centres and cluster resource centres, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, 2010-2011.

15. Member, Steering Group of the National Curriculum Framework 2005, NCERT, New Delhi.

16.Member of the group to design BElEd, Central Institute of Education, Delhi University, Delhi, 1990-1993.

Grants/fellowships for Research and Innovative Practice/Development/ collaboration:

1. A study of Graduate Competencies for Sustainable Lives in the Himalayan Hindukush Region. ICIMOD, HUC, 2021-22. With Rekha Pappu.

2.Global Award of the IDRC-KIX-GPE for scaling educational innovation. 2020-2023. For collaboration with IBBUL, Nigeria, Samste College, Bhutan and Open University, Tanzania to scale, CLIx TPD innovation.

3.Institutional Grants for Teacher Education: Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching 2019-2021, Ministry of Human Resource Development, School of Education. Towards a Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education and a Centre for Evaluation and Policy, development of resources and inservice teacher education for 1500 beneficiaries.

4.Preliminary Grant towards initial work for the establishment of Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education. 2018-2019. Tata Trusts. The grant supports activities towards the establishment of a Centre of Excellence. Through the grant we have hosted international round tables, one symposium, undertaken preliminary work to conceptualise research studies and undertaken preliminary work for the new pre- and in-service programmes to be launched from the 2019 academic session.

5.Capacity Building of Teacher Educators from Afghanistan. Supported by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan. For the capacity building of 40 teacher educators from Afghanistan through a Masters in Education, and development of multi-media resources for the same. 2018-2020.

6.Evaluation of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for Teacher Education. Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, 2017.

7. Connected Learning Initiative—Phase 1. 2015-2019. With Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. And TATA Trusts. Clix.tiss.edu. CLIx is a large scale action research initiative which includes capacity building development, implementation and research, involving 13 teams and 7 partnerships to explore and develop the area of technology enabled curriculum and development work in education. The Centre for Education Innovation and Action Research has been established to incubate this initiative and to develop the area of new media in education, with a focus on teacher education.

8. And SPARC grant (2019-2021) for collaboration with MIT, USA to prepareof a monograph on CLIx and round 3 of Innovation Diffusion Study.

CLIX Phase I has led to the development of 14 Open Education Resources for secondary school STEM, Digital Literacy and spoken English, the development of an innovative platform for collaborative and open learning, CLIx and TISSx for teacher online courses, 1 certificate blended programme for inservice teacher education including over 14 courses. CLIx has reached 4 states in which 481 schools have activated ICT labs, and has benefited 47536 students, 2883 teachers and 178 teacher educators. CLIx includes 7 major research studies, several small researches and three doctoral studies, and has led to the several conference papers and policy briefs. In addition to the lead partners, the CLIx community includes 3 development partners, 2 implementation partners and 4 State Government partnerships.

Quality of Education in Public and Private schools:

Collaboration between 5 scholars and has included extensive conceptual work, workshops for students, research studies of students and a large empirical study on quality in schools. This collaboration has include three rounds of student exchanges between India and UK (15 India to UK, 6 UK to India), two summer schools in India and one course in UK. 3 PhD and 1 MPhil study, 4 publications in peer reviewed journals and 1 book publication.

1. Preparatory Background work for a Programme of Comparative Education. ICICI Centre for Elementary Education. 2008-2010.

2. Conceptual Enquiry for the Design of a Survey of Schools (School Quality, Teachers and Parents). ICSSR-ESRC India-UK Scholar Exchanges 2010 & Tata Institute of Social Sciences,(MAEE-ICEE). 2010-2011.

3. Study of “Baseline Survey of School Scenario in some States in the Context of RtE”. Education Consultants India Limited (EdCil) MHRD,2011-2012.

4. Collaborating for Quality in Education (with Christopher Winch). British Council-Internationalising Higher Education.2012-2013.

5. Changing Nature of the Public and Private in Education: with Christopher Winch, and Rahul Mukhopadhyay. UGC-UKEIRI. 2014-2019. The grant supported the conduct of four major schools/workshops reaching 150 beneficiaries, and exchange of over 10 doctoral students and 10 faculty between UK and India.

Education Resource Centres and Teacher Education (2008-2012):

Three year study of resource centres for preservie and inservice teacher education and in schools. Including the publication of a report and a film on resources in education, and a source book of resource centres. Policy Support for Teacher Education. Support to MHRD on 12th plan guidelines development.

1. Development of a proposal for an Action Research Project on Teacher Resource Centres. Sir Ratan Tata Trust 2008-2009.

2.Teacher Development Initiative: Policy & Programme Evaluation and Action Research on Teacher Resource Centres (with Disha Nawani). Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust.2010-2013.

3. Comprehensive Framework for Recognition of Teacher Education Institutions. (with Gopal Midha). National Council of Teacher Education. 2012-2013.

Institutional Grant. Collaborative Post Graduate Programme for Education:

1.Collaboratively designed post graduate programme for education studies which was then implemented at TISS, Mumbai. Sir Ratan Tata Trust and ICICI-Social Initiative Group. 2005-2010.

District Quality Education Project:

Major field action project involving work with schools and teacher education in Chamarajanagar District, Karnataka, involving a collaboration with the Government of Karnataka particularly to work within the DIET and the Block and cluster resource centres. The initiative included massive development of materials for teachers to read in Kannada, the establishment of a District resource centre (still functional) and capacity building modules for teachers and resource persons. The work included securing grants from the SSA Karanataka to train block and cluster resource persons, develop guidelines and a handbook, and designing and trialing a training management system for block resource centres.

1.District Quality Education Project. (with AR Vasavi). Sir Ratan Tata Trust 2002-2007.

2.Strengthening DIETs (with AR Vasavi)

3.District Quality Education Project—Training of Master Resource Persons and Cluster resource Persons (with AR Vasavi). Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Karnataka, 2003-2005.

4.Training Management System (with Rahul Mukhopadhyay). Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Karnataka. 2006.

5.District and Block Resource Centre Development. Asha for Education, Boston Chapter. 2005-2006.

6. An Evaluation of Soliga Siddhi (with Indira Vijaysimha). Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Karnataka.2006.

Books/monographs:

1.Education Teaching and learning: discourses, cultures and conversations. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, with Manish Jain and Azra Razzack (editors). forthcoming.

2.No Teacher No Class. State of Education Report for India, 2021. New Delhi: UNESCO. With Bindu Thirumalai, Ruchi Kumar, Anusha Ramanathan and Mythili Ramchand.

3.Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia. Springer Major Reference Work, Singapore: Springer Nature. 2021 Editor in Chief with Rekha Pappu.
Section Editor: Teachers and Teacher Education. in the Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia. With Yusuf Sayed.

4. School Education in India: Quality, Market and the State. New Delhi: Routledge. With ArchanaMehendale, Manish Jain, Rahul Mukhopadhyay and Christopher Winch (editors). 2018 (including 5 chapters).

5. Teacher Resource Centres in India. A sourcebook. With Disha Nawani, Latha K. and Jyoti Banga (Editors). TISS. 2017 (including 1 chapter and introduction)

6. Improving Government School: What has been tried and what works 2005, Bangalore: Books For Change. (Edited and Introduction) with Mandira Kumar. (Including three articles in the book). Reprinted Eklavya, 2020 and Hindi edition 2020.

7. Constructing School Knowledge: An Ethnography of Learning in an Indian Village New Delhi: Sage, 2003.

Book Writing Team:

1. Source Book on Assessment for Classes I-V: Mathematics (New Delhi: National Council for Educational Research and Training) 2008. (Book writing team)

2. Volumes 1&2 Aspects of Mathematics Teaching, IGNOU. Volume 1&2, 1994-96.

3. Vidyakura Sikshana Rupantara. (Collection of essays in Kannada). Bangalore. Navakarnataka, 2007.
1. Prashika, New Delhi: Ratnasagar. R.K. Agnihotri, S. Shukla and New Delhi: Ratna Sagar, 2000.

Book Manuscripts under preparation:

1. Learning Culture

2. Decentralising Public Education in India— Experiences from Chamarajanagar (with N. Ramkumar et al)

Research Articles in Journals, Book Chapters and Contributions to Books (selected):

1. “India’s child-centered education” in Razzack, A, Sarangapani, PM and Jain, M Education Teaching and learning: discourses, cultures and conversations. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, forthcoming.

2. “An introduction to the discipline of education in India and its histories” in in Razzack, A, Sarangapani, PM and Jain, M Education Teaching and learning: discourses, cultures and conversations. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, with Jain, M and Razzack, A. forthcoming.

3. "Education systems in South Asia” in Sarangapani, PM and Pappu, R. Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia. Singapore: Springer Nature. With Rekha Pappu, 2021: 1-26.

4. “A cultural view of teachers, pedagogy and teacher education” in Sarangapani, PM and Pappu, R. Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia. Singapore: Springer Nature. With Yusuf Sayed, 2021, 1247-1270.

5. "Understanding teaching and learning in South Asia” in Sarangapani, PM and Pappu, R. Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia. Singapore: Springer Nature. With Yusuf Sayed, 2021, 1199-1218

6. Teacher mediation in an ESL science education context Voices of Teaches and Teacher Educators. 7(2) 30-38. with Madhuri Yerra. 2019.

7. Collegiality in Teaching” perceptions and experiences of beginning teachers in India. Voices of Teaches and Teacher Educators. 7(1): 71-85. With Latha K. 2018.

8. Market. State and Quality in Indian School Education; New Discursive Regimes and Contestations. In School Education in India: Quality , Market and State. New Delhi: Routledge. With Rahul Mukhopahdyay. 2018.

9. Recovering the Practice and Profession of Teaching. In School Education in India: Quality, Market and State. (See above). With Rahul Mukhopahdyay and Parul K. 2018

10.Quality in Education: Concept and Method. In School Education in India: Quality, Market and State. (See above) 2018.

11.Teaching because it matters. In School Education in India: Quality, Market and State. (See above). With Niharika Sharma. 2018

12.Hyderabad’s Education Market. . In School Education in India: Quality, Market and State. (See above) 2018

13. “Preparing to Teach. Elementary teacher education at a district institute”. Economic and Political Weekly 52(34): 47-55. With Hisako Akai. 2017

14. “Institutional Diversity and Quality” in Handbook of Education in India. Krishna Kumar (Editor), New Delhi: Routledge. 2017.

15. “Resources in Teaching Learning: Cognitive and Pedagogic Considerations” in Teaching Learning Resources for School Education. Disha Nawani (Editor). New Delhi: SAGE. 2016.

16. “Viewing CCE through an indigenous lens” in Gerard Guthrie, Richard Tabulawa, Michele Schweisfurth, Padma Sarangapani, Wayne Hugo & Volker Wedekind. Child soldiers in the culture wars, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 45:4, 647-650. 2015.

17. “Knowledge, curricula and teaching methods: the case of India”. In Revue internationale d'éducation Sèvres. Colloque : L’éducation en Asie en 2014 : Quels enjeux mondiaux ?, online from 05 juin 2014.

18. Review Symposium of Amartya Sen’s capability approach and social justice in education, edited by M. Walker and E. Unterhalter, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Caroline Sarojini Hart, Padma M. Sarangapani & John Lowe British Journal of Sociology of Education. 33(4) pp. 607-619, 2012 , pp. 607-619, 2012.

19. “Is Education News” in Economic and Political Weekly 46(42):69-76. WithVidya K.S., 2011

20. “Soft Disciplines and Hard Battles” in Contemporary Education Dialogue 8(1):67-84 2011.

21.“Comparative Education in India: Why it is missing and why we need it.” In Journal of Education Planning and Administration 24()4: 363-378. 2010.

22. “Quality Concerns the Extra National Dimension” in Contemporary Education Dialogue 7(1):41-57, 2010.

23. “Response to Tooley, Dixon and Gomathi” in Oxford Review of Education 36(4): 499 — 515, 2010. with C. Winch.

24.Quality, feasibility and desirability of low cost private schooling: what is the evidence? Economic & Political Weekly, 44(43), 24 October, 67–69, 2009.

25.“The Open Classroom and its Critics” in Concerns, Conflicts and Cohesions: Universalization of Elementary Education in India Ed. Preet Rustagi, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), pp191-209.2009.

26. “Classics with Commentary: The Tyler Paradox” Contemporary Education Dialogue 4(1):119-141, 2006.

27. “History of the quality debate” Contemporary Education Dialogue 2(1): 30-52—Also an invited paper submitted as a part of the Global Monitoring Report of the UNESCO EFA 2005, reprinted in CED. With Krishna Kumar.

28. “Childhood and Schooling in an Indian Village”, Childhood 10(4):403-418, Nov 2003. reprinted in Playing for Real: Hindu Role Models, Religion and Gender Edited by J S Hirst and L Thomas (New Delhi: Oxford University Press) 2004, pages81-101.

29. "Universities: The Invisible Dimension of Elementary Education” in Transformative Links between Higher and Basic Education: Mapping the Field, Ed. Karuna Chanana, (New Delhi:Sage) 2004, pp 95-107.

30. “Childhood and schooling in an Indian village” in Playing for real: Hindu role models, religion and gender Eds. J S Hirst and L Thomas, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.

31. “Aided programmes or guided policies? The DPEP in Karnataka” Economic and Political Weekly 38(32): 3401-3408, 2003, with A.R. Vasavi.

32. “Indigenising Curriculum: Questions posed by Baiga Vidya”, Comparative Education 39(2):199-209, ( May 2003).

33. “Self in Relation to Work: perceptions of children in an North Indian village” at ‘Rethinking Childhood’, Proceedings of the International Conference, Institute for Development Research, Bondy, France, November 2000.

34. “A way to explore Children’s Understanding of Mathematics”, Issues in Primary Education, 2(2), July-Sept, 2000.

35. Children’s ideas regarding science and scientists. Sandarbh.

36. “The Child’s Construction of Knowledge” in Socialization in the Indian Setting: theory, research and applications Ed. T.S. Saraswathi (New Delhi: Sage) 1999.

37. “Piaget’s Theory: going back in order to go forward” Indian Educational Review 35(2):1-27 1999.

38. “Pathyakram ka desikaran bhag 1” Shaishanik Sandarbh 35 May-June 2014: pp42-44. Translation of Indigenizing Curriculum: questions posed by Baigya Vidya”.

39. Children’s Construction of Schoo Siksha Vimarsh 1(3):l Science. Shaikshanik Sandarbh 27 May-June 1999.

40. Alipur Gaon mein siksha: Siksha Vimarsh 1(2):13-20. April 1999.

41. Alipur gaon mein siksha: shikshak aur bacche. Siksha Vimarsh 1(3):11-18. May 1999.

42. Alipur gaon mein siksha: kaksha mein sikshan. Siksha Vimarsh 1(4):20-26. June 1999.

43. Alipur gaon mein siksha: seekhne mein yaad karke ki Bhumika. Siksha Vimarsh 1(5):13-19. July1999.

44. Alipur gaon mein siskha: bacche janne valon ke roop mein. Siksha Vimarsh 1(6):14-21. August 1999.

45. “Dewey’s theory of Inquiry”, unpublished research seminar paper. MPhil, Centre Institute of Education, University of Delhi, 1989.

46. Childhood Growing up and Learning: the Baigas of Northern Kawardha. Report submitted to the Indira Gandhi National Centre of the Arts of the Study titled: “Indigenous Knowledge and Knowledge Tranmission: a study of Baiga Children” carried out as a part of the Indira Gandhi Memorial Fellowship 1999-2001. September 2001.

Films on Resources and Resource Centres (research and scripting)

1. Resources in Education (English). 34 minutes. 2016,

2. Education Resource Centres (English) 12 minutes. 2007.

3. Teacher Resource Centres (Kannada) 5:33 minutes, 2007

Reports (selected):

1.Making EdTech work for secondary school students and their teachers: research findings from CLIx phase I, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 2020

2.Evaluation Of Centrally Sponsored Scheme On Teacher Education In States And UTs. Submitted to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. 2017.

3.UNESCO Country Report on Teachers and Teaching—India. (with Archana Mehendale). 2016.

4.Multigrade Multilevel Programe in Chhatisgarh: An evaluation Report submitted to the State Council for Education Research and Training, Chhattisgarh, (with Archana Mehendale), 2013.

5.Comprehensive Framework for Recognition of Teacher Education Institutions Commissioned by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, GOI (with Gopal Midha), 2013.

6. “Approaches to School Support and Improvement” report of the Committee to Suggest Indicative Operational Guidelines for Strengthening and Revitalisation of Sub-district level Resource Centres submitted to the Department of School Education and Literacy. MHRD, GOI. 2011.

7. “Training Management System”, NIAS in collaboration with E-Governance Unit, Commissioner of Public Instruction Government of Karnataka (with Rahul Mukhopadhyay), 2007.

8. “DIETs: Potential and Possibilities”, NIAS in collaboration with MHRD, 2007.

9. “An Evaluation of Soliga Siddhi” submitted to SSA Karnataka,(with Indira Vijaysimha), 2006.

10.Report on Karnataka State for CABE Committee on Regulatory Mechanisms for Textbooks and Parallel Textbooks Taught in Schools Outside the Government System, 2005.

11.Baseline study of Chamarajanagar. NIAS. 2003.

School mathematics Project (as a member of team at CSEC, Delhi University)	Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi	1992-1995
Indigenous Knowledge and Knowledge Transmission: A study of Baiga Tribe	Indira Gandhi Memorial Fellowship, IGNCA, New Delh	1998-2000.
School Improvement Project: Case Case Studies (with Mandira Kumar).	ICICI-SIG	1999-2001
District Quality Education Project (with AR Vasavi)	Sir Ratan Tata Trust	2002-2007
District Quality Education Project—Training of Master Resource Persons and Cluster resource Persons (with AR Vasavi)	Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Karnataka	2003-2006
Evaluation of Samuha-PLAN mathematics lab at Deodurg Taluk, Raichur	PLAN	2004
Strengthening DIETs (with AR Vasavi)	Sir Ratan Tata Trust	2004-2007
An Evaluation of Soliga Siddhi (with Indira Vijaysimha)	Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Karnataka	2006
Training management System (with Rahul Mukhopadhyay)	Sarva Sikha Abhiyan, Karnataka	2007
Collaborative Post Graduate Programme for Education (for TISS)	Sir Ratan Tata Trust and ICICI-SIG	2005-2010
Development of software for a Training Management System (with Rahul Mukhopadyay)	Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Karnataka	2006-2007
Preparatory Background work for a Programme of Comparative Education	ICICI Centre for Elementary Education	2008-2010
Development of a proposal for an Action Research Project on Teacher Resource Centres.	Sir Ratan Tata Trust	2008-2009
Teacher Development Initiative: Policy & Programme Evaluation and Action Research on Teacher Resource Centres (with Disha Nawani)	Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust	2010-2013
Conceptual Enquiry for the Design of a Survey of Schools (School Quality, Teachers and Parents)	ICSSR-ESRC India-UK Scholar Exchanges 2010	2010-2011
Baseline Survey of School Scenario in India	TISS/(ICEE)	2010
Study of “Baseline Survey of School Scenario in some States in the Context of RtE”.	Education Consultants India Limited (EdCil) MHRD, Government of India	2011-2012
Passage to India - Passage to Europe	DAAD, Germany	2010-2011
Collaborating for Quality in Education (with Christopher Winch)	British Council-Internationalising Higher Education	2012-2013
Evaluation of Multigrade Multilevel Programme of Chhatisgarh. With Archana Mehendale	SCERT Chhatisgarh	2012-2013
With Christopher Winch, and Rahul Mukhopadhyay	UGC-UKEIRI	2014-2016
“Connected Learning Initiative” With MIT, Cambridge, MA	TATA Trusts	2015 onwards

Main Employment:

Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai 2008-till date

Chairperson, Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education(formerly Centre for Education Innovation and Action Research). Principal Investigator for CLIx, a collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (clix.tiss.edu). Lead development of BEd/Integrated Bed-MEd. And PG Certificate Education Perspectives and Research Methods, MPhil and PhD in Education (practice based) curriculum and programme design.

1. Dean School of Education, 2012-2013.

2. (2011-12) worked with the faculty of education at TISS Hyderabad to design MA Education and Integrated MPHil-PhD (Education).

3. 2008-2011:Programme coordinator for MA Education (Elementary)

4. Teaching: Philosophy of Education, Curriculum and Schooling, Research Methods and Teacher Professional Development, Knowledge Theory and Practice (MAEE and MPhil).

5.Visiting Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore 2006-2007 & Visiting Associate Fellow (2002-2006).

6.Co PI for the District Quality Education Project (DQEP), for work with middle level functionaries and teacher education in Chamarajanagar District, Karnataka.

7.Coordinated the development of multi-institution led innovative MA Education (Elementary).