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Associate Professor of Education
Individualized Liberal & Professional Studies
Academic Information
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 1998, Department of Educational Organization
and Leadership, College of Education, Dissertation:
The Home School Relations: An Exploration into the Perspectives
of Parents and Schools on Asian Indian Cultural Model
of Schooling.
- M.Ed., Annamalai University, 1991,
Annamalainagar, India
- B.Ed., Maharishi Dayanand University,
1989, Rohtak, India
- M.A., Delhi School of Economics,
University of Delhi, India, 1988, Economics
- B.A., Shri Ram College of Commerce,
University of Delhi, India, 1986, Economics
Biographical Information
At Antioch I design and teach graduate level courses in Qualitative Research, Women's Ways of Knowing, Foundations of Academic Discourse, and Applied Curriculum Design. I also teach a Humanities course for the Undergraduate Program entitled – "Self and Society – Growing Up Elsewhere."
My previous experience includes working as a Research Associate at the Center for Family and Community Research, University of Dayton. There I worked with a research team to study the impact of increase in student and faculty diversity on the campus climate and academic experience. Prior to that, I worked for four years as a Research Assistant for the College of Education and for the Department of Economics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During this time I worked on several research projects to study educational experiences and achievement of minority students, evaluated high school reform programs, and also worked on a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) project studying the impact of human resource investment in Latin America.
Before coming to the USA in 1992, I worked as a high school teacher and administrator in India for more than five years. During that time I also established and supervised an Adult Literacy Center at a private school in India under the auspices of Government. of India’s National Literacy Mission. I also worked as an Economics Instructor for Indira Gandhi National Open School, a Government of India's program for high school dropouts.
Specialization
- Cultural Models of Schooling in Ethnic
Minorities
- Family-School Relationship
- Minority and Immigrant Education
- Multicultural Education
- Qualitative and Practitioner Research
in Education
- Role of Self in Research
- Bridging Academic and Creative Writing
Areas of Interests
I like to read, learn, and reflect about topics as diverse as cross-cultural experiences of Asian Indians in the US, qualitative ways of knowing, decolonizing of mind and research traditions, self-transformative practices, Integral ways of being, spirituality, and social-political thought of Sri Aurobindo and Mahatma Gandhi.
I have been leading the development of the ILPS focus area of Integral Knowledge Systems. IKS is a new and innovative academic space at AUM, which values the dynamic and evolving integration of matter and spirit, transformative learning and practice, future-oriented thinking, and dialogue of civilizations. Based on a broad understanding of yoga as a process of conscious evolution, the Integral Yoga framework has been our starting point for the development of IKS. I have been actively collaborating with a diverse, international faculty on the development of a cluster of several graduate level courses that are being offer under the umbrella of IKS.
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