Member publications consists of articles and papers contributed by members of the Foundation to leading newspapers, magazines, and journals. Articles & Opinions and Bibliography comprise a repository of academic articles on education and other allied domains such as health, livelihoods and sustainability.
Member Publications
Human Capital
March 18, 2014
In a career spanning over four decades, my brother, a senior post-doctoral research guide, ha..
Outlook
March 17, 2014
The recent sting-ops that exposed the readiness of 11 polling agencies to customise their findings have done us a great favour. Interest in pre-election survey data was never more feverish than now. The the media frenzy for electoral...
Livemint
March 05, 2014
My childhood friend Kabir would have been thrilled to be there. The talk was about how to use the school building for pedagogical purposes, i.e., for teaching and learning. Kabir is an architect who specializes in developing and using the...
Outlook
February 20, 2014
In the modern imagination, the handloom tends to appear as an object of melancholy or as a soon-to-pass relic. The figure of the weaver disappears in discussions of economic reforms that rage between the binaries of agriculture and...
Livemint
February 19, 2014
On 3 February, Mint’s main editorial suggested that “school vouchers” will help solve India’s problems in school education. To use a distinction that Mint often makes, this is Mint’s politics trumping its economics.
Deccan Herald
February 17, 2014
he forthcoming Lok Sabha election is special in many ways. A new generation will participate in elections for the first time. It was born after the Babri riots, anti-reservation agitation, and the unprecedented electoral success of a Hindu...
Articles & Opinions
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
January 04, 2013
This article, by former school prinicipals, discusses the mechanism by which principals improve schools. Instead of micromanaging teachers, principals should lead efforts to collectively monitor student achievement through professional...
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
January 02, 2013
A strong education system is the cornerstone of any country’s growth and prosperity.
Seminar
October 01, 2012
Education is a powerful instrument for overcoming inequalities, promoting human development, accelerating social transformation and achieving economic progress. Ensuring equitable distribution of educational facilities and opportunities is...
Seminar
October 01, 2012
We find that the character of the classroom is becoming more and more multicultural everywhere. In such situation what should the curriculum aim at?
The Hindu
December 12, 2011
Some children are showing a disturbing insensitivity to social issues, says a WIPRO-EI study.
Seminar
November 01, 2011
More than sixty years after independence, the question of how we educate our children still remains highly contentious.
Bibliography
Learner-centred education reforms in India: The missing piece of teachers' beliefs
Policy Futures in Education
April-2015
Recent international education trends have witnessed a widespread push for promoting Western-originating ‘learner-centred’ approaches, often without adequately considering the challenges involved in crossing cultures.
Category: Teacher Professional Development
Quality education for all? A case study of a New Delhi government school
Policy Futures in Education
April-2015
This article is based on a case study conducted at a government (state-run), girls’ secondary school in a low-income neighbourhood in New Delhi that was conducted in March, 2012, two years after the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory...
Category: Education Policy
The evolution of early childhood education policy in Hong Kong
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy
March-2015
Almost all 3- to 6-year-olds attend preschool programmes in Hong Kong; however, early childhood education (ECE) had been relatively neglected by the Hong Kong government until 2000 when the reform of school education system was initiated.
Category: Early Childhood Education Policy
What is Education For? On Good Education, Teacher Judgement, and Educational Professionalism
European Journal of Education
March-2015
Teaching and teachers have recently become the centre of attention of policy makers and researchers. The general idea here is that teaching matters. Yet the question that is either not asked or is only answered implicitly is why teaching...
Category: Education Policy
Race, Inequality of Opportunity, and School Choice
Theory and Research in Education
March-2015
Both neoliberals and liberals call for mitigating inequality of educational opportunity stemming from circumstances beyond an individual’s control. In this article, the authors challenge the wisdom of making equality of opportunity hinge...
Category: Education Policy
Rich Schools, Poor Schools: Hidden Resource Inequalities between Primary Schools
Educational Research
March-2015
In order to provide a better underpinning for a contextualised policy, a multidimensional concept of school context is used to identify the position of Flemish primary schools in the field of education and to outline their profile.
Category: Education Policy