Academic

I have taught in a variety of college settings and the courses are inter-disciplinary. In fact I started teaching when I realised that my research based learning about ground reality could be translated into teaching, which in fact, is the highest form of understanding. As Stephen Brookfield has said, “We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first time they learned something they loved.”


Every teacher knows that before entering a class, a teacher becomes pedagogue - equipped self with reading and preparing educational material is more important . A pedagogue focuses on ‘making students think’ and ‘thinking critically’. Thus while teaching ‘development issues’, I as pedagogue combined ‘thinking critically’ and ‘appealing hearts’, as the development discourse is also about the one on margins and vulnerable. Therefore, appealing logical brain that analyses the ground reality is to be enhanced with the heart that is filled with compassion and believes in upholding dignity of each human being. Thus each student is a potential carrier of ‘equality’, ‘dignity’, ‘peace and justice’ and ‘using state of art’ for better quality of life.


My diverse educational qualifications helped to be effective pedagogue and being pedagogue motivated me to be a ‘teacher’ – to experience and learn ‘how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher’s actions’.


My academic activities incorporate teaching, designing curriculum, evolving pedagogy and preparing educational material during 2001 and 2010.


A. Post Graduate programme in Development management (PPDM) (2001-08)

Run by: St Xavier’s Non-formal education Society

Course: 1800 hours / 120 credits course – a year long

Modules: 800 hours / 53 credits

  • Development issues (module of 375 hours / 25 credits): Socio-economic development, Basics of Indian Constitution, Inequality and Discrimination based on caste, class, gender and religion, Governance - Panchayati raj as mechanism for local governance
  • Development Planning & strategies (module of 300 hours / 20 credits): State initiatives - Analysing budget, Strategies of Planning Commission, Globalisation and market, Role & Responsibilities of Civil Society organizations like trade union, NGO
  • Development Research (module of 75 hours / 5 credits): Types of Research, Conceiving Research and preparing outline, Research methodology for data collection, Date analysis, Report writing, Using data for advocacy
  • Social Communication (module of 45 hours / 3 credits): Communication skills, Use of low cost media, developing communication strategies for a development issue

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B. Certificate course on Rural Development (CRD) (2006-10)

Run by: St Xavier’s College, recognised by University Grants Commission (UGC)

Course: 300 hours / 20 credits – 180 hours in class and 120 hours in field

Modules: 100 hours / 6 credits

  • Values enshrined in Indian Constitution
  • Concept of development
  • Concept and issues of Governance
  • Conceptual understanding of Human Rights, Social Justice and Empowerment frameworks
  • Gender issues and process of engendering

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C. Certificate course on Human Rights (CHR) (2008-10)

Run by: St Xavier’s College, recognised by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) under Convergence Scheme

Course: 300 hours / 20 credits in 6 months

  • Conceptual understanding of Human Rights
  • The Universal Declaration of Human rights
  • State of affairs


D. Masters in Social Work (MSW) (2009-10)

Run by: St Xavier’s College, recognised by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) under Convergence Scheme

Course: 120 credits – 2 to 5 years

Teaching: During

  • Introduction to Social Work
  • Research methodology
  • Project work


E. Masters in Development Communication (MDC) (2003-06)

Run by: Centre for Development Communication (CDC)

Course: 2 years

Modules: 80 hours / 4 credits

  • Communication research: Types of Research, Conceiving Research and preparing outline, Research methodology for data collection, Date analysis, Report writing, Using data for multi-media productions


F. Course on material culture, School of Liberal Science, National Institute of Design (NID) (2005)

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