| * MA (First Class with Merit Position, Political Science) Allahabad University, Allahabad * MPhil (First Class with Merit Position, Political Studies) Jawaharlal Nehru University * PhD (Politics) London University, London |
Adult Education & Lifelong Learning; Development Education; Citizenship Education & Global Citizenship; Education, Democracy & Social Transformation; Literacy, Mass Education and Public Policy; Community Development and Participatory Development; Poverty, Social Exclusion and Inclusive Development; Pedagogical and socio-cultural intervention in (Adult) Education and Development.
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Serving as a full-time Professor in the Centre of Adult Education, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), since 2 August 2009. Before that he was an Associate Professor at JNU from August 2006 to July 2009.
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From January 2015 to April 2017, served as Director of the Group of Adult Education, JNU, New Delhi.
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Between April 2015 and July 2016, served as Member-Secretary of JNU's Community Engagement Cell (CEC), the University's flagship community outreach initiative.
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From January 2009 to December 2012, he coordinated and supervised the ‘Emotional Well-being’ programme and ‘One-on-One Counseling Service’ for the overall well-being of JNU students.
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Visiting Professor, Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg, Germany (Winter, 2015).
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Commonwealth Fellowship, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, United Kingdom (1993–1996).
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University Grants Commission (UGC) Junior and Senor Fellowship (1989–1993).
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1. Part of an ongoing international project titled, "Rural Hybrid Energy Systems" (2011-2014) led by the University of Nottingham and IISc Bangalore as nodal agencies, where I am involved in looking after community education and engagement in the four villages of India and UK with a total budget outlay of Sterling 4 millions.
2. Completed and submitted a Baseline Study Report titled, "Impact of Fair Trade Association and Adherence on Producer Groups in India" (August 2008) to World Fair Trade Forum and Fair Trade Forum India, New Delhi. 3. Completed and submitted a Report titled, "Baseline Study for Indus – Child Labour project in Allahabad", (31 December 2004) sponsored jointly by Department of Labour of Federal Government of USA, and Ministry of Labour, GOI but managed and implemented by ILO Delhi. 4. From Feb. 2001 to July 2006, I have also been involved in coordination, supervision, and designing publicity and outreach programmes for the "Allahabad Childline Emergency Freephone & Outreach Service", a joint project of the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment and the UNICEF. 5. Completed a monitoring and evaluation study of ILO - sponsored project called "International Programme on Elimination of Child Labour from Hazardous Industries in India" (IPEC) through efforts in (a) schooling, (b) creation of alternative income-generating activities for child labour families, and (c) corporate sector involvement and community mobilization (2001 to 2003). 6. In 1999, I completed another evaluation study of a World Bank funded "EFA" project called "Role of Community Libraries in Quality of Public Life in Rural Uttar Pradesh" - commissioned by the Government of Uttar Pradesh (India). |
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1. "Mass Literacy for India, the emerging Superpower" in the Indian Journal of Adult Education, Vol. 70, No. 4 (2009), pp. 11-16.
2. "Development Education and Dialogical Learning in the 21st Century" in the International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, Vol 1, No. 1 (2008), pp. 37-48. 3. "Deprivation, Socialization and Learning among Children" (Chapter 6) in D.M. Diwakar and G.P. Mishra (2006) edited book, titled, Deprivation and Inclusive Development, Manak Publications, New Delhi, pp. 121-131. 4. "Language and Mass Literacy: Some Rural-Urban Contexts", in Alan Rogers (2005) edited book titled, Urban Literacy: Communication, Identity and Learning in Development Contexts, UNESCO Institute for Education, Hamburg, Germany 5. "Institutionalizing lifelong learning: creating conducive environments for adult learning in the Asian context", a book review article published in the International Journal of Educational Development, 24 (2004), pp. 213-226. |
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o "Mass Literacy for India, the emerging Superpower" in the Indian Journal of Adult Education, Vol. 70, No. 4 (2009), 11-16.
o "Development Education and Dialogical Learning in the 21st Century" in the International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 1/1 (2008), 37-48. |