New Perspectives in Science Education
Neeraja Raghavan
Institution: Azim Premji University,
Address: Bangalore
Postal Code: 560100
Country: India
Neeraja Raghavan is a Professor at Azim Premji University, Bangalore.
She completed her PhD in Chemistry from Princeton University in 1987. With eight years’ industrial experience, in R & D, over thirteen years’ experience in the non-profit sector - as an educational consultant- and over ten years' teaching experience, she now works in the field of science education. She has worked in mainstream as well as alternative schools, both as teacher and Principal. She has written for over a decade in national and international newspapers as a free lance journalist. She is the author of I WONDER WHY (CBT 2004), I WONDER HOW (2006) and CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER (Full Circle, 2003) and has published a few research papers in Chemistry. She co-edited ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLING IN INDIA (Sage Publications, 2007) and CHILDHOOD REGAINED (HAND IN HAND, Tamil Nadu, 2007).
She conducts in-service teacher training in Science, and works on Science Material and Curriculum development. Her research interests lie in the emergence of the reflective practitioner from within the in-service teacher.
She completed her PhD in Chemistry from Princeton University in 1987. With eight years’ industrial experience, in R & D, over thirteen years’ experience in the non-profit sector - as an educational consultant- and over ten years' teaching experience, she now works in the field of science education. She has worked in mainstream as well as alternative schools, both as teacher and Principal. She has written for over a decade in national and international newspapers as a free lance journalist. She is the author of I WONDER WHY (CBT 2004), I WONDER HOW (2006) and CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER (Full Circle, 2003) and has published a few research papers in Chemistry. She co-edited ALTERNATIVE SCHOOLING IN INDIA (Sage Publications, 2007) and CHILDHOOD REGAINED (HAND IN HAND, Tamil Nadu, 2007).
She conducts in-service teacher training in Science, and works on Science Material and Curriculum development. Her research interests lie in the emergence of the reflective practitioner from within the in-service teacher.
