Alladi Ramakrishnan Hall
Scientists and school education: A discussion
Krishna Kumar
Visiting Fellow, MIDS, Chennai; Formerly Professor, Delhi University and Director, NCERT.
Can disciplinary researchers contribute meaningfully to school education? Should they?
The discussion with Professor Krishna Kumar, an eminent educationist and scholar, will centre on these questions.
Currently
an Honorary Professor at Panjab University, Chandigarh, Professor
Krishna Kumar taught for many years at the Central Institute of
Education, University of Delhi and served as Director of the National
Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
In 2011
Professor Kumar received an honorary D. Litt. from the Institute of
Education, University of London, and was also awarded the Padmashri. A
former visiting fellow at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies,
Berlin, and at the Centre for the Advanced Study of India, Philadelphia,
he also delivered the Gladwyn Lecture (2007) in the House of Lords of
the
British parliament.
A bilingual author, columnist and
children's writer, his books include Politics of Education in Colonial
India, What is Worth Teaching, The Child's Language and the Teacher,
Prejudice and Pride,
Battle for Peace, A Pedagogue's Romance and
Education and Conflict and Peace. His edited volume, The Routledge
Handbook of Education in India, has just been released.