Research

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I am an Educational Researcher and have good experience with the Indian public and private school education system. My research is generally focused on the Social-Sensibility, Civic Awareness, and Civic Mindedness.

I am interested in exploring the pedagogical interventions for students becoming Active citizens and taking responsibility for their immediate social issues at the appropriate age. I have worked on the pedagogies like Service-Learning, Activity-based Learning, Project-based Learning, Problem-based Learning, Community-based Learning and Place-based Learning.

Understanding international perspectives on Citizenship Education: Sustainable Development Goal 4.7 clearly articulates, ‘by 2030 ensure all learners acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, …, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship, and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development. Therefore, I would like to understand the educational domains like Global Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Active Citizenship and continue contributing to large-scale programs in India over the long run.

Pedagogy for Citizenship Education: Mulyavardhan program (by the State government of Maharashtra, India 2016-19) suggests pedagogies based on cooperative learning principles. I have a membership of the 'International Association for the Study of Co-operation in Education'. I'll continue with the research on similar Pedagogies like Cooperative Learning, Service Learning.

Citizenship Curriculum integration: Mulyavardhan has developed its curriculum. There are different approaches for implementation of such curriculum like merging democratic values in the current curricular subjects, introducing it as a separate subject, creating out of the classroom opportunities, or influencing adults to practice this (Coster & Sigalas, 2017). India has used all these approaches at different points in time. I realized that there are no studies commenting on the effectiveness of these approaches in the Indian context, which can be my next research.

Establishing international measurements for Citizenship Education in India: Recently, I got an opportunity to read the research conducted under ICCS. It compares the different countries on Citizenship related understanding by accommodating the cultural, teacher background and school system context(Schulz, Ainley, Fraillon, Losito, & Agrusti, 2016). I would like to contribute as a researcher for establishing the measurements, comparing findings with different countries and influencing policy decisions.

You can read more about my current, proposed and published research here.