Nisha Butoliya
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Language Education in Elementary Schools
- Perspectives on Education — special focus on Sociology of Education
- Teacher Education
- English language teaching
- Curricular material development
Biography
Nisha Butoliya is the Head of the Academic Programmes, at the Bhopal campus. She teaches Sociology of Education and courses around Language Education.
Nisha has been teaching for over two decades. Through her teaching career, she has taught school children, students of Undergraduate & Postgraduate programmes, teachers, teacher educators and senior administrative educational functionaries. As a primary school teacher, she was involved in developing theme-based curriculum for Kindergarten through Grade 3.
Her journey as a teacher educator began as she engaged with other teachers facilitating their understanding of theme-based learning. In the due course of her engagement as a teacher educator, she has developed pre-service teacher education curricular material for elementary teachers in Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand. She also conceptualized, coordinated and facilitated many workshops as a part of in-service capacity development of educational functionaries of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Sikkim.
She has also developed certificate courses related to aspects of education perspectives, language and literacy including English Language Enrichment Course in collaboration with SCERT, Telangana. The course catered to around one lakh teachers of Telangana state. The course is being offered to the teachers of other states in collaboration with respective SCERTs.
Nisha has contributed to the textbook development exercise at SCERT, Sikkim and NCERT, New Delhi.
Professional Development Courses
Classroom observation for enabling teacher reflection
A 6 day course for reflective abilities in teachers to understand the classroom.
Perspectives on Public Education System
This course is envisaged keeping in mind the above context and, therefore, the need to provide opportunities for the officials to review and re-appraise their roles and work towards both a larger vision of education and its relation to different key stakeholders in the public education system today.
Pedagogy of Early Reading and Writing
The course takes participants through experiences of classroom processes leading to an understanding of the principles and practice of a comprehensive literacy pedagogy.
Language Across Curriculum
A 5-day course in developing a critical understanding of the nature and role of language in children, curricula and subject knowledge.
Publications and Writings
- बुटोलिया, निशा (2023) बच्चों की दुनिया में किताबें — पुस्तकालय : एक परिचय. पाठशाला भीतर और बाहर, 18.
- Butoliya, N. (2019, November). Contextualising textbooks: Glimpses from Sikkim. Teacher Plus, 17 (11), 6 – 9.
- Butoliya, N. (2019). Enabling and making of a good teacher. Paper presented at III Teacher Educators Conference, State Council of Educational Research and Training, Gangtok, Sikkim.
- Naik, A., Butoliya, N. (2019, January 14). Is education a casualty? Deccan Herald.
- Naik, A., Butoliya, N. (2018, September 21). Prepare the eco-system. Deccan Herald.
- Butoliya, N., Menon, S. (2017). LSRW: sequential or simultaneous? Early Literacy Initiative, TISS, Hyderabad.
- Singh, Gurbachan., Butoliya, N.R. (2013). Through the lens of equity. Learning Curve, XX, 19 – 21
- Butoliya, N. R. (2013). When a teacher facilitates. Learning Curve, XIX, 84 – 86
- Butoliya, N. R. (2013). Satat evam samagra mulyankan: ek dhrushtikon. Khoje aur Jaane, 4, 30 – 32
- Butoliya, N.R., (2013). Language across Curriculum: Principle to practice. Language and Language teaching Journal, 2(1), 45 – 48.
- Speaker: “Theme-based teaching learning”, 2008, International Convention on National Curriculum Framework-2005: strategies to implement, Vidyani Vidyalaya, Vadodara.
- Speaker: “English Language teacher Education in a diverse environment – Principle practice”, 2013, III International Teacher Educator Conference, British Council & EFL‑U, Hyderabad.
Speaker: “English Language teacher Education in a diverse environment – Principle practice”, 2013, III International Teacher Educator Conference, British Council & EFL‑U, Hyderabad.
Discussant: Section II of the following book
Raghavan, N., Sood, V., Anilkumar, K. (2018). Teaching tales, learning trails. Chennai: Notion Press.
Contributed to the following study and country guidance
- Jhingran, D., Early Literacy and Multilingual Education in South Asia, United Nations Children’s Fund Regional Office for South Asia, Kathmandu, 2019.