Mathematics education -- an Indian view from below, and from above
Speakers Name
Dr. Ramanujam R
About the speaker
Ramanujam obtained his PhD from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. He was a postdoctoral fellow at City University of New York (CUNY), USA, and then joined The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai where he was a faculty member for more than three decades until he superannuated in July 2021. His doctoral work in the 1980s was in the area of logic programming. Along with Rohit Parikh (CUNY), he was among the early researchers to study epistemic logic to reason about distributed systems.
Affiliation
Azim Premji University
Abstract
While Dr. Ramanujam is a researcher in logic and automata theory, he also has been active in adult education and school science and mathematics education over the last three decades in India, mostly with the poorest sections of society. This work has also led him to participate in committees at the national and state level. These two views of education, from high above in the committees, and from the ground in villages and urban slums, are in sharp contrast, and he will talk about his learning from this.
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