Padma M Sarangapani
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Padma M Sarangapani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Padma M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarangapani |
| SIGNATURE | SARANGAPANI P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Quality and equity in preservice teacher education in India: Analysis of teacher eligibility test (TET) data from one state
Designing a Mobile-Messaging App-Based Teachers’ Community of Practice in India
A mobile-based messaging app (MMA) was implemented as a teachers’ community of practice in the Indian context through a large-scale educational initiative. The development process adopted a Design-based Research approach to test underlying theories in real-world settings. The researchers theorised the pedagogical affordances of the MMA Telegram using Davis and Chouinard's theoretical framework of affordances, defined as a relational process among…
Pedagogy and Diversity: Difference or Deficit
Schools—their curriculum and pedagogy—assume the middle-class child as the norm, effectively rendering other childhoods and life-worlds as being deficient. Shifting away from this assumption, and acknowledging diversity, is usually understood as requiring an ‘attitudinal’ shift on the part of teachers. Teachers are usually held ‘guilty’ of having negative attitudes towards children of the poor. Explanations for the pedagogy generally then refer t…
Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia
Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia
Child soldiers in the culture wars
Child soldiers have received increasing attention over the last 20 years. The phenomenon does not occur as isolated aberrations but is interwoven in complex economic, political, religious and ideol
Indigenising Curriculum: Questions posed by Baiga vidya
The Baiga are a small tribe inhabiting the forested regions of Central India. They are known for their extensive knowledge of forests and healing. A local pedagogic tradition supports the transmission of this knowledge from expert practitioner-gurus to their chelas or novices. The knowledge system is local and oral. The pedagogic tradition and socialisation which supports its transmission is marked by these qualities as also the subsistence level…
Childhood and Schooling in an Indian Village
This article explores the ideology of childhood and schooling in an Indian village primary school, in an attempt to understand the importance of authority in the relationship of the teacher to the student, and of discipline in the process of schooling. Ethnographic data from a village school and popular folk literature are analysed and interpreted. The identities of teacher and student are found to be elaborated to include traditional and everyda…
Indigenising Curriculum: Questions posed by Baiga vidya
The Baiga are a small tribe inhabiting the forested regions of Central India. They are known for their extensive knowledge of forests and healing. A local pedagogic tradition supports the transmission of this knowledge from expert practitioner-gurus to their chelas or novices. The knowledge system is local and oral. The pedagogic tradition and socialisation which supports its transmission is marked by these qualities as also the subsistence level…
Childhood and Schooling in an Indian Village
This article explores the ideology of childhood and schooling in an Indian village primary school, in an attempt to understand the importance of authority in the relationship of the teacher to the student, and of discipline in the process of schooling. Ethnographic data from a village school and popular folk literature are analysed and interpreted. The identities of teacher and student are found to be elaborated to include traditional and everyda…
Pedagogy and Diversity: Difference or Deficit
Schools—their curriculum and pedagogy—assume the middle-class child as the norm, effectively rendering other childhoods and life-worlds as being deficient. Shifting away from this assumption, and acknowledging diversity, is usually understood as requiring an ‘attitudinal’ shift on the part of teachers. Teachers are usually held ‘guilty’ of having negative attitudes towards children of the poor. Explanations for the pedagogy generally then refer t…
Child soldiers in the culture wars
Child soldiers have received increasing attention over the last 20 years. The phenomenon does not occur as isolated aberrations but is interwoven in complex economic, political, religious and ideol
Indigenising Curriculum: Questions posed by Baiga vidya
The Baiga are a small tribe inhabiting the forested regions of Central India. They are known for their extensive knowledge of forests and healing. A local pedagogic tradition supports the transmission of this knowledge from expert practitioner-gurus to their chelas or novices. The knowledge system is local and oral. The pedagogic tradition and socialisation which supports its transmission is marked by these qualities as also the subsistence level…
Childhood and Schooling in an Indian Village
This article explores the ideology of childhood and schooling in an Indian village primary school, in an attempt to understand the importance of authority in the relationship of the teacher to the student, and of discipline in the process of schooling. Ethnographic data from a village school and popular folk literature are analysed and interpreted. The identities of teacher and student are found to be elaborated to include traditional and everyda…
Child soldiers in the culture wars
Child soldiers have received increasing attention over the last 20 years. The phenomenon does not occur as isolated aberrations but is interwoven in complex economic, political, religious and ideol
Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia
Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia
Pedagogy and Diversity: Difference or Deficit
Schools—their curriculum and pedagogy—assume the middle-class child as the norm, effectively rendering other childhoods and life-worlds as being deficient. Shifting away from this assumption, and acknowledging diversity, is usually understood as requiring an ‘attitudinal’ shift on the part of teachers. Teachers are usually held ‘guilty’ of having negative attitudes towards children of the poor. Explanations for the pedagogy generally then refer t…
Designing a Mobile-Messaging App-Based Teachers’ Community of Practice in India
A mobile-based messaging app (MMA) was implemented as a teachers’ community of practice in the Indian context through a large-scale educational initiative. The development process adopted a Design-based Research approach to test underlying theories in real-world settings. The researchers theorised the pedagogical affordances of the MMA Telegram using Davis and Chouinard's theoretical framework of affordances, defined as a relational process among…
Quality and equity in preservice teacher education in India: Analysis of teacher eligibility test (TET) data from one state
Pedagogy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Curriculum (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (2 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (2 works) · History (2 works)