Gomathy Soundararaj
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- In-service Teacher Education
- Technology Integrated Learning and Teaching
- Instructional Design
- Qualitative Research
- Early Childhood Education
Biography
Gomathy is part of the Professional Development Programme (PDP) team, at the University. Prior to joining Azim Premji University, she worked as a project researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay).
As an English graduate from Stella Maris College, Chennai, she started her educational journey as a teaching fellow with Teach For India and further pursued an MA in Education at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
In her professional path, she has curated and designed capacity-building programmes and online courses to upskill in-service school teachers and leaders. She has also led qualitative research projects on teacher development, technology-integrated learning, and early childhood education in India and Europe.
She is a yoga practitioner and enjoys coffee from all around the world.
Publications
Book Chapter
- Szabó T.P., Burnard P., Harris A., Fenyvesi K., Soundararaj G., Kangasvieri T. (2021). Multiple creativities put to work for creative ecologies in Teacher Professional Learning: A vision and practice of everyday creativity. In S. Lemmetty, K. Collin, V.P. Glăveanu, P. Forsman (Eds.), Creativity and Learning: Contexts, Processes and Support. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture, pp. 115 – 143. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978 – 3‑030 – 77066-2_6
Handbook
- Szabò, T., Fenyevesi, K., Soundararaj, G. & Kangasvieri, T. (2019). Everyday Creativity: Boosting Creative Resources with Finnish Models of Education, Teacher’s Handbook. University of Jyväskylä, Finland. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978 – 951-39 – 7857‑0
Book Review
- Soundararaj, G. (2021). The Manifesto for Teaching Online, Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e‑Learning, 102 – 104. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2021.2014800
Master’s Thesis
- Soundararaj, G. (2019). Teacher perspectives on pedagogical changes: an ethnographic study in the rural primary schools of Tamil Nadu, India. Master’s thesis. University of Jyväskylä, Finland. http://www.urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201905242796
Conference Proceeding
- Soundararaj, G., Badhe, V., Ishika, I., Pawar, M., Dasgupta, C. & Murthy, S. (2022). Unpacking contextual parameters influencing the quality of Personalised Adaptive Learning EdTech applications. International Conference of Computers in Education (ICCE), Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. https://icce2022.apsce.net/proceedings/volume1/
Poster Presentations
- Soundararaj, G. (2019). In-service Teacher Education: Challenges in the model of discrimination. Association for Teacher Education in Europe Spring Conference: Innovations, technologies and research in education. Riga, Latvia.
- Soundararaj, G. (2019). Everyday Creativity: Lessons Learnt from Transforming an In-Service Teacher Education Course to Open Educational Resource. Association for Teacher Education in Europe Spring Conference- Innovations, technologies and research in education. Riga, Latvia.
- Soundararaj, G. (2018). The experiences and observation in the classrooms of Kortepohja School from the standpoint of an English teacher from India. Joint International Seminar on Education for Diversity. Stockholm University, Sweden.
Blog Post
- Soundararaj, G. (2023, January 5). How do teachers learn? Edu Ramble. https://gomathysoundararaj.wordpress.com/2023/01/05/how-do-teachers-learn/