Tour Schedule
- May 28 -- 30, 2011: Keynote speaker and active participant at Asha-20 conference, Stanford, CA.
- Jun 01, 2011: Talk at Seattle
- Jun 03, 2011: Talk at University of Florida, Gainsville
- Jun 04, 2011: Talk at Princeton
- Jun 06, 2011: Talk at Cornell
- Jun 07, 2011: Talk at New York City
Biographical Information
Amukta Mahapatra is Director, SchoolScape, a centre for educators which focuses on the preparation of the teacher and enables schools, education departments and organizations to enhance quality of learning in the classroom.
She has been associated with the field of education since the 1980s when she started her teaching career at the Krishnamurti Foundation India school in Chennai. Since then, she has set up the Abacus School, Madras, where for the first time in India, in recent years, Montessori ideas of education were applied right up to the elementary level while following the mainstream syllabus. She has worked with several NGOs and schools; she has designed a programme for public-private partnership in Karnataka that still continues to function.
While working with UNICEF, she helped to develop along with a seven-member internal task force, a Quality Package to be implemented in government schools across ten states. Monitoring and observation formats were also designed and field-tested in different states along with training for field staff and third party evaluations.
She received Best Teacher's Award from "Lady Kalyani Sivaswami Ayyar Best Teacher Award", 2001. She has been a member of several committees such as National Resource Group (NRG) for SSA; NEGAEE, NCERT, Delhi; R. Govinda Committee on teacher education; and CABE Committee (1987-89).
She has organised many national and international conferences; some of them being -- the International Democratic Education Conference in 2004 in Bhubaneswar; 50 years of Montessori in India at Kalakshetra, Chennai in 1989. She has participated and presented papers at national and international seminars. She has published articles and papers; her work has been mentioned in 'Improving Government Schools, what has been tried and what works' published by Books for Change, 2005 and 'Back to School', Best Practices edited by Vimala Ramachandran, Sage Publications, 2004.
Resources
Movement, Activity, Learning and the Construction of Personality, by Amukta Mahapatra [appeared in The Hindu]Mainstreaming Child-centered Learning: ABL in Tamil Nadu, by Amukta Mahapatra
Effectiveness of ABL under SSA, by Amukta Mahapatra
ABL Reform in Tamil Nadu: an evolution, not a revolution, by Ramachandar Krishnamurthy
Order through Activty (article on ABL) [appeared in Newsweek]
Good Grades (article on ABL) [appeared in Financial Express]
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