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
Economic and Political Weekly
October 22, 2016
Over the last two decades, several good books have been written on the history of economic thought such as Vaggi and Groenewegen’s A Concise History of Economic Thought (2003), Roncaglia’s The Wealth of Ideas (2005), Ernesto and Zamagni’s...
October 13, 2016
amya hails from a disadvantaged family. She is the only daughter of a single mother Malli (whose husband expired a few years back), who works as a house maid in South Bengaluru. Ramya’s family hails from a tiny village in Tumkur, where her...
Livemint
October 13, 2016
The chat with me about his passion for working in education left him very unhappy. He was fortyish, with 20 successful years in the world of business. Since I get many requests for such chats, I have developed a method for mentally...
International Education and Research Journal
October 05, 2016
Paper examines the interrelationship that exists between discipline and school education in Indian context. After Right to Education Act of 2009 lot of discussion and confusion in the area of formal education; policies are being floated...
Livemint
October 01, 2016
The ruins of Hampi are haunting. Among impossibly balanced giant boulders, with intermittent lush paddy fields, and the quietly flowing Tungabhadra, they soak you in a sense of the impossible having happened there. Hampi was the seat of...
Livemint
September 28, 2016
In over a hundred towns across the seven states that we work, we run teacher learning centres (TLC). These are run-in rooms stocked neatly with books, educational kits and other material that is relevant for teachers. The rooms are clean...
Articles & Opinions
Deccan Herald
March 09, 2017
Finland boasts of one of the most revered education systems in the world. Catering to a population of 5.2 million citizens in Finland, this system has broken many rules of education planning and delivery to make it inclusive and effective.
Deccan Herald
March 09, 2017
Teachers, on a daily basis, are concerned whether their teaching will lead to student-learning. And, over centuries, psychologists have attempted to unravel the mysteries of human learning.
Deccan Herald
March 08, 2017
The goal of education is not to reproduce the existing structure, but to create a new mode of critical thinking and creat
Livemint
March 08, 2017
A programme to create tinkering labs is an attempt to augment current systems of education with a vision to nurture a million children to become neoteric innovator
Education Science
March 01, 2017
Sustainability is internationally often emphasized as an essential aim of higher education, but more as a principle than on the practical level. This is also obvious in the academic education of primary teachers in Finland.
Biomed Central-Human Resources for Health
February 15, 2017
Evidence-based health workforce policies are essential to ensure the provision of high-quality health services and to support the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC).
Bibliography
Inferential Statistics in Language Teaching Research: A Review and Ways Forward
Language Teaching Research
November-2016
This article reviews all (quasi)experimental studies appearing in the first 19 volumes (1997–2015) of Language Teaching Research (LTR). Specifically, it provides an overview of how statistical analyses were conducted in these studies and...
Category: Teacher Professional Development
Grade Retention in Primary Education is Associated with Quarter of Birth and Socioeconomic Status
PLoS ONE
November-2016
Grade retention is still common practice in some countries though longstanding experience tells us that it is a highly criticised practice for its unclear benefits, its important costs for the educational systems and its relation with...
Category: Education Policy
Fostering effective teaching behavior through the use of data-feedback
Teaching and Teacher Education
November-2016
In this study data-feedback in a cyclic model of data-driven teaching was used to enhance the teaching behavior of students registered in a master course for teachers.
Category: Teacher Professional Development
Why Should We Demand Equality of Educational Opportunity?
Theory and Research in Education
November-2016
This paper reveals how equal educational opportunities, equal job opportunities and equality of opportunity for welfare are related to each other, and how they are related to other demands for justice.
Category: Educational Theory
Use of early childhood longitudinal studies by policy makers
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy
October-2016
Modern ECCE research began with the birth of the U.S. Head Start program in the 1960s; however, policy makers and the public paid little attention to it until several studies that had random assignment or wide representativeness received...
Category: Early Childhood Care and Education
Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India
Economics of Education Review
October-2016
This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrollment in primary schools among children in the 6–10 age group.
Category: Education Policy