Vishnu Prakash Kareepadath

Areas of Interest & Expertise

Critical Education
Politics of Education
Gender and Education
Education and Development

Biography

Vishnu actively volunteered for Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishath (KSSP) for more than ten years and this association developed his interest in education, democracy, and social change.

He graduated from Kerala Agricultural University and decided to pursue his studies in Education, and completed his Master’s degree, Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree, and Doctoral studies in Education from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).

Vishnu has been a recipient of the TISS Rural Transformation Fellowship, in 2012, and the UGC-NET Junior Research Fellowship in Education, in 2015.

Courses

Field Research
Identify research problems in education practice.
Education
Agniva Pal, Sharad Sure, Vetti Giri, Vishnu Prakash Kareepadath
Schools as Organisations
Studying schools as the most basic unit of a formal education system
Education
Miriam Thangaraj, Rishikesh B S, Saswati Paik, Vishnu Prakash Kareepadath
Introduction to School System in India
Understanding the factors that shape the school systems in India.
Education
Prakash Iyer, Rishikesh B S, Saswati Paik, Miriam Thangaraj, Vishnu Prakash Kareepadath

Publications

Journal Article

Kareepadath, V.P. (2018). Critical pedagogy in practice: A case study from Kerala, India. Journal of Pedagogy, 9(2), 33 – 54. https://doi.org/10.2478/jped-2018 – 0010

Book

Kareepadath, V.P. (2012). Anweshikkuka, kandethuka, chinthikkuka, pravarthikkuka (Trans. Explore, discover, think, act). Teachers Handbook. Centre for Environment Education (CEE), Ahmedabad.

Conference Presentations

Kareepadath, V.P. (2019). Doing and redoing gender in school: An ethnographic study from Kerala. [Paper presentation]. Comparative Education Society of India (CESI) 10^th International Conference, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India
Kareepadath, V.P. (2017). Theory in practice: A case study in critical pedagogy. [Paper presentation]. International Conference in Philosophy of Education, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India
Kareepadath, V.P. (2016). Development and education in globalised era: A critical analysis of Kerala Perspective Plan, 2030. [Paper presentation]. National Conference, Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Bhopal, India