Azim Premji University

Anish Mokashi

Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • Physics education
  • Teacher education
  • Experimental physics and its history
  • Ethnography of science education
  • History of science
  • Pedagogy of listening and documentation à la Reggio Emilia
  • Learners’ agency
  • Autonomy and meaning-making
  • Nature of science
  • Science and society

Biography

Anish is an experimental physicist and he works on science education at the school and University levels. 

Through his educational practice and research, he has been trying to find common ground between the cultures of scientific research and science pedagogy. 

He has worked with undergraduate students at IISc, at Eklavya with science teachers and in the field, and with middle school and high school students at Poorna Learning Centre.

His interests lie in understanding conditions that support meaning-making, autonomy and agency in students and teachers, in connecting experimental science and conceptual understanding, and in finding ways for collegial and democratic cultures of teaching-learning to evolve.

Courses

Publications and Writings 

  1. Anish Mokashi, Gurinder Singh, Honey Singh (2020), Reflections from hands-on science workshops for teachers: ​‘Listening’ to teachers. epiSTEME 8, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR), Mumbai (pp. 290 – 298)
  2. Anish Mokashi, Karthik Bhat (2018), A conceptual test for the physics laboratory: Question-framing aids articulation but also reveals susceptibility of beliefs. epiSTEME 7, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (TIFR), Mumbai (pp. 417 – 426) 
  3. Anish Mokashi, Dinesh Kumar Verma, Honey Singh (2017), Sound, India: CLIx, Tata Institute of Social Sciences 
  4. अनीश मोकाशी (2016) ​‘बच्चों के साथ विज्ञान’. In रश्मि पालीवाल (ed.) विज्ञान और उसकी शिक्षा, एकलव्य, भोपाल. In संदर्भ (Jan 2015). Also, English version.
  5. A. Mokashi, S. Li, B. Wen, S. V. Kravchenko, A. A. Shashkin, V. T. Dolgopolov, and M. P. Sarachik, Critical behavior of a strongly interacting 2D electron system. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 096405 (2012)
  6. A. Punoose, A. M. Finkel’stein, A. Mokashi, S. V. Kravcheko, Test of the scaling theory in two dimensions in the presence of valley splitting and intervalley scattering in Si-MOSFETs. Phys. Rev. B. 82, 201308® (2010)

On-going Projects

  1. A book for a general audience on the history of the measurement of the speed of light building on a talk delivered at the IISc Paraspar Lecture Series titled: How a Dane in Paris chanced upon the speed of light and other tales from the heavens and the Earth.
  2. A project on the theme of listening to teachers, exploring the general as well as specific aspects of the teaching-learning of science at schools, and the design of sessions in teacher workshops.
  3. Extended documentation of students’ meaning-making of scientific phenomena and concepts.