Dr Meera Gopi Chandran | Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Dr Meera Gopi Chandran

Assistant Professor
Mumbai Campus, Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education

Qualification

Ph.D. in Education, TISS Mumbai
M.A. in Sociology, Madurai Kamraj University
M.Sc. Life Sciences, Madras University

Contact

meera.chandran[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in

meera.chandran@tiss.edu

Meera Chandran is Assistant Professor at Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her research is located within the disciplinary perspectives of Sociology and Political Economy of Education. She has worked extensively in the fields of development and education designing and conducting research projects before entering the world of academia.

She teaches courses on Sociology of Education, Policy Institutions and Practices, Education, Development and Policy, Teachers and Teaching, Global Teacher Education and so on.

She was Lead - Research of the large-scale award-winning project, Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx), she served as Co-PI of the Government of India SPARC-CLIx project and was involved in a multi university collaborative project on Global Policy in Teacher Education. She is currently Co-PI of CETE’s Longitudinal Study in Teacher Education (LiSTEn).

Sociology of Education, Policy Sociology and Political economy of education

Global and Comparative Education & Teacher Education

Teacher's work, knowledge, identities

Urban schooling and livelihoods

Recent Publications

· Sayed, Y., Chandran, M., & Pappu, R. (2023). Education Policy Imaginary and Crises: The Case of EdTech and the COVID-19 Crisis. Contemporary Education Dialogue, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09731849231206217

· Mythili Ramchand, Meera Chandran, Reeta Rai and Manjula Vithanapathirana (2023). School Practicum Experience in Initial Teacher Education during times of Disruptions: The Case of Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka. In. Pradhan, U., Valentin, K., & Gupta, M. (Eds.). (2023). Rethinking Education in the Context of Post-pandemic South Asia: Challenges and Possibilities. ISBN: 9781032365664.

· Vikas Maniar & Meera Chandran (2022). Education and livelihoods in the global south. In Nunan, F., Barnes, C., & Krishnamurthy, S. (Eds.). (2022). The Routledge Handbook on Livelihoods in the Global South (1st ed.). Routledge. ISBN: 9780367856359

· Meera Chandran, Poonam Sharma & Emaya Kannamma (2021). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education and teaching in Asia-Pacific: Future of work in education. Education International-Asia Pacific, Kuala Lumpur.

· Meera Chandran (2021). Teacher accountability and education restructuring: an exploration of teachers’ work identities in an urban school for poor in India. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/09620214.2020.1855462

· Meera Chandran (2020). Teachers’ Work and Identity, A Case for Strengthening Knowledge Relations. Proceedings of the International Conferences on Philosophy of Education, Azim Premji University. ISBN:9789387676732

· Meera Chandran, et.al. (2020). Making Edtech Work for Secondary Students and their Teachers: Research findings from Connected Learning Initiative- Phase 1. CLIx, TISS.

· Padma Sarangapani & Meera Chandran (2020). Whither the Teaching Profession? Inspecting some silences in the NEP 2020, https://thebastion.co.in/politics-and/whither-the-teaching-profession-inspecting-some-silences-in-the-nep-2020/ (Sep 26, 2020)

· Meera Chandran (2019) - A Critical Reflection on the Landscape of Technology in Education: What Have Learnt and Where Do We Go from Here? In Connected Learning @ Scale: Positions, Policies and Partnerships; CETE, TISS.

· Meera Chandran & Arundati Roy (2018). In-service Teacher Education and ICT Review of CLIx Baseline Data from the Four States. CLIx working paper. CETE, TISS

· Meera Chandran (2016). Digital Resources for Teachers’ Professional Learning: Some Lessons. In, Disha Nawani, Sage Publications, New Delhi. ISBN: 9789351509264

2020 - Present

Co-PI LiSTEn, CETE

2020-2023

Co-PI SPARC - CLIx
Principal Investigator - Study on understanding social mobility & aspirations among urban poor students

2018 - 2020

Lead, Research. Connected Learning Initiative.

2016-2017

Course Lead. Teacher Professional Development in ICT Integration, Connected Learning Initiative

2012 – 2015

Principal Investigator. Teacher Professional Development through Whole Class Technology Integration: A Study in 12 Government Schools in Karnataka

2013-2014

Lead Researcher. Professional Learning Communities of Teachers – A Study on the Voluntary Teacher Forums in Rajasthan

2010-2012

Principal Investigator, Activity Based Learning - A Study among Government School Teachers in Puducherry

2005 – 2010

Research Lead. Baseline study on Whole School Improvement in Low Cost Private Schools in Bangalore

Research Lead. Evaluation of School Safety and Sensitivity

Research Lead. Teachers as Reflective Practitioners

Research Lead. Evaluation of In-service Teacher Professional Development in Government Schools

2016 - Present (MA Eduation & B.Ed M.Ed, TISS Mumbai)

Sociology of Education
Policy Institutions and Practices
Global Teacher Education Policies & Practices
Social Marginality
Education Development and Policy
Teachers & Teaching
Research Methodology
Teacher Professional Development

2012 - 2015 (MA Education & MA Development, Azim Premji University)

Sociology of Education
Advanced Social Research
Introduction to Research

Workshops & Seminars:

Have conducted over 75 Workshops and Seminars with professionals in the field of education.