No I havent seen the movie so it is not about that… What has triggered this one is a series of events… one of which, the most significant one, infact, is that I have been waiting to turn 30 forever now… Now I have no fascination or the lack of it for growing old, but…
In an earlier blog I have spoken about the relevance of research questions. The nature of research questions that you set up would determine whether your research demands a qualitative or a quantitative approach. In contemporary times, a mixed methods approach is frequently used that draws out the best out of qualitative and quantitative paradigms….
Introduction Last week I attended a Faculty Development Workshop in my college on ‘Writing and Publishing Research Articles in SCOPUS and SCI Indexed Journals: From Basics to Submission’. The three day event was informative, particularly for faculty members and research scholars who are at the beginning stages of their research writing journey. Identifying SCOPUS Indexed…
A Celebration with Contradictions Every year, Teachers’ Day is celebrated with great fanfare in various educational institutions across the country on 05th September. It is often seen that a majority of teachers stay away from political and administrative positions. In such a situation, it is indeed a matter of pride that a teacher was chosen…
I was a fairly underconfident teen in 1994. As the new academic session began, our class was asked to move to the ‘big’ building in school that housed the senior secondary classes. I wasn’t excited but I had recently started loving some subjects. English and science in particular. In class nine, in a substitution period,…
This article presents a summary of Rosenhan’s famous experiment of pseudopatients in a mental health institution. Bibliography Rosenhan, D. L. (1973). On being sane in insane places. Science, 179(4070), 250–258. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.179.4070.250 Debates in mental health “However much we may be personally convinced that we can tell the normal from the abnormal, the evidence is simply not…
Bibliography Sarangpani, P M, Jain, M & Razzack, A. (2023) The Discipline of Education in India and Its Histories: An Introduction. In A Razzack, P M Sarangpani, & M Jain. Education, Teaching, and Learning.: Discourses, Cultures, Conversations. (pp. 1-37) Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. You can buy this book here. (Associates Link) Summary The chapter talks about…
Reference: Revathy (2016) Teacher Education in India. Research Nebula. V(16), 40-41. Summary The key focus of the paper is on highlighting existing status of teacher education in the country with emphasis on provisions and the need for teacher welfare. It presents a list of bodies involved in teacher education. The paper mentions that in the…
Alam, S. and Debnath, S. (2022) Future of Teacher Education in the Context of NEP 2020. International Journal of Latest Research in Humanities and Social Science. 5 (10): 17-22. Read full article here. Summary Key focus of the paper is on highlighting the policy recommendations for teacher education. The specific focus is on recommendations for…
Venkatesh, K. 2017. Negotiating the ‘Social’ in Elementary School Social Sciences. Economic and Political Weekly, LII (24): 169-172. Read full article here. Brief Overview The paper begins by raising the fundamental question of what constitutes Social Science at the school level in the specific context of division of textbooks into disciplinary areas. Debate around social…
