M.Sc. (IIT-C), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Delhi)
psarangapani@tiss.edu
Achievements
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.
2014-2015 Commonwealth Academic Fellowship (at the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex, UK).
March 2011 UGC-SAP visiting Professor to the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad.
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)
Professional Assignments
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
2. 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.
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Research Articles in Journals, Book Chapters and Contributions to Books:
1. “Is Education News” in Economic and Political Weekly 46(42):69-76. WithVidya K.S., 2011.
“Soft Disciplines and Hard Battles” in Contemporary Education Dialogue 8(1):67-84 2011.
Reports:
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
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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 |
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