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- 'Little Minds Dreaming Big Science': Are we Really Promoting 'Children Gifted in Stem' in India?
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1 Gifted Education Programme, School of Social Sciences, IN
2 Gifted Education Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
3 School of Natural and Engineering Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
1 Gifted Education Programme, School of Social Sciences, IN
2 Gifted Education Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
3 School of Natural and Engineering Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
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Current Science, Vol 108, No 5 (2015), Pagination: 779-781Abstract
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- The Culture of Environmental Education: Insights from a Citizen Science Experiment in India
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1 School of Natural and Engineering Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore 560 012, IN
2 School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore 560 012, IN
1 School of Natural and Engineering Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore 560 012, IN
2 School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore 560 012, IN
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Current Science, Vol 107, No 2 (2014), Pagination: 176-178Abstract
The impact of culture on environmental education is well acknowledged by theorists and practitioners in the field; however, the particular mechanisms by which cultural factors may influence environmental educational practices are still relatively unexplored. In this note we describe a citizen science initiative that we attempted to implement in a rural area in southern India, and draw on our experiences with the project to show how cultural beliefs regarding the purpose of school education and the importance of environmental issues can interact in subtle ways to present challenging scenarios to environmental educators.Full Text
- Women in STEM Disciplines
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1 Education Programme, School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
1 Education Programme, School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
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Current Science, Vol 112, No 10 (2017), Pagination: 1986-1987Abstract
A consultation meeting held recently about women in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines under the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) project scrutinized issues around the themes of organizational factors, policy initiatives, institutional hierarchies and differences, and mentoring, networking and leadership.Full Text
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- Challenges to Identify and Mentor Gifted Children in Developing Countries: The Indian Experience
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1 National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
1 National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
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Current Science, Vol 120, No 3 (2021), Pagination: 472-478Abstract
The National Education Policy 2020 (NEP-2020) has recognized the need to identify and nurture gifted and talented children beyond the school curriculum. Through systematic research, the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru has developed multiple protocols for identifying and multi-level, multi-stage mentoring of gifted children. This study argues that there is need for a paradigm shift in the identification process that predominantly uses psychometric measurements in the portfolio that captures the actual data points of gifted children. This is particularly relevant for developing countries like India, which has a diverse population predominantly from disadvantaged communities. Establishing norms for standardized psychometric tests developed for the western populations will have inherent limitations to identifying the gifted children in multi-lingual and multi-cultural contexts. Needless to state, India has far too few trained psychologists to accomplish this task.Keywords
Developing Countries, Gifted Children, Identification, Mentoring, Psychometric Measurements.Full Text
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- Karnes, F. A., State definitions for the gifted and talented revisited. Except. Child., 2000, 66, 219–238.
- Kurup, A. and Maithreyi, R., A review of challenges in developing a national program for gifted children in India’s diverse context. Roeper Rev., 2012, 34(4), 215–223.
- Response
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1 National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
1 National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
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Current Science, Vol 120, No 6 (2021), Pagination: 974-974Abstract
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- The Extinction of Experience in a Biodiversity Hotspot: Rural School Children’s Knowledge of Animals in the Western Ghats, India
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1 Animal Behaviour and Cognition Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
2 Education Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
1 Animal Behaviour and Cognition Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
2 Education Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
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Current Science, Vol 121, No 2 (2021), Pagination: 313-316Abstract
Lack of environmental awareness or ignorance re-garding the ecological role of animals among children has long-term negative consequences for the biodiver-sity of a nation. We conducted a study in a biodiversity hotspot in southern India to examine the knowledge level of rural school children regarding the mammali-an species in their region. The results of the study showed that school children were able to recognize regional mammalian species that are publicized by media sources, but had little knowledge about their conservation status or more significant information about them. Environmental education programmes must focus on making children more aware of the im-portance of various animals sharing their habitat, so that they have greater knowledge regarding the eco-logical roles of animals in the ecosystem.Keywords
Biodiversity Hotspot, Environmental Education, Mammals, School Children.Full Text
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- Binoy, V. V., Radhakrishna, S. and Kurup, A., Bridging educa-tional institutions for a citizen science project: a case study from Malappuram District, Kerala, India. In Bridging the Communica-tion Gap in Science and Technology (eds Bagla, P. and Binoy, V. V.), Springer, Singapore, 2017, pp. 269–277.
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- Mapping the Life Trajectories of Women Scientists in India: Successes and Struggles
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Anitha Kurup
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Anjali Raj
2
Affiliations
1 School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
2 Independent Research Scholar lives in Delhi, IN
1 School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru 560 012, IN
2 Independent Research Scholar lives in Delhi, IN
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Current Science, Vol 122, No 2 (2022), Pagination: 144-148Abstract
This article discusses the findings of a research report titled ‘Capturing diversity: a comprehensive report on women in science and engineering in India’. By mapping the life trajectories of 130 women scientists of India, the article highlights their successes and struggles at different levels of their lives in order to have a career in science.Keywords
Child-Care Support, Life Trajectories, Professional Experiences, Women Scientists, Work-Life Balance.Full Text
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