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Chetan Sinha
Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
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February 2008 - December 2008
May 2012 - November 2012
January 2013 - May 2013
Centre for postcolonial education Nirman Varanasi
Position
- Assistant Director
Education
July 2005 - November 2013
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Publications (43)
The current article explores the meaning of neuroscientific evidence in the legal domain. It takes a social-psychological perspective to discuss how group-based stereotypes affect legal decision-making critically. Examining how any interpretation is anchored and objectified is interesting as evidence is interpreted in the context. Dominantly, with...
The systems of playing and the power of playground design affect children's social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. Some playgrounds are systematically designed, and some are explored and created by the children. In the first case, playgrounds are imposed by parents, school authorities and urban localities with instructions and boun...
The article draws from critical psychology to discuss the rising debate on brain determinism and free will in the legal domain. As free will also corresponds to the context and culture, it can have both the public and private space of expressions. The rise of neuroscience and its influence in the legal domain offers a holistic and sociocultural mea...
The gender movement comprising feminist and queer group movements addressed various issues of prejudices in the legal domain. This article discusses the question of power in the context of neuroscience, gender, and law. It elaborates on how the stereotypical view corresponding to the mythology and parasitic view prevalent in history was made as fac...
The development of sociotechnical codes by the legal system acts as a marker of good citizens and development of self where social norms matter. In most cases, despite cultural differences, socialization plays an important role in making sense of law. The question is, ‘how does law come to mind and what is the role of brain? This question will be d...
This article discusses how we become conscious and aware and what is the role of the brain when people are not conscious of their actions. Consciousness in the wider philosophical framework dealt with an asocial and individual framework. The understanding of consciousness also requires one's critical understanding of social context and group proces...
The present paper critically examined the available research on role of family and school contribution in academic achievement and explored their social representations. People adaptation with the prevalent notions and thinking beyond the boundary of common sense is required to explain multidimensional picture of any attribute. Previous research ap...
This paper draws attention to the meaning of data, politics and reality in social psychology. Since social psychological data matters, critical reflection on data handling and interpretations expands the horizon of social psychology beyond the cause-effect nexus. Social psychological enterprise is a political field where the role of structure and p...
The movements to understand the free will and choice, which is empirically apparent to the observer, is contested by brain science. Further explorations about intentions, reasons along with deception have brought the meaning of self and agency under re-examination. However, a triangulated picture with other scientific evidence may make the picture...
The article draws from critical psychology to discuss the rising debate on brain determinism and free will in the legal domain. As free will also corresponds to the context and culture, it can have both the public and private space of expressions. The rise of neuroscience and its influence in the legal domain offers a holistic and sociocultural mea...
Though written extensively, recent debates on universality of emotions have shown that age, gender, and ethnicity have greater implications in the ability to identify expressions from faces. Facial emotion recognition deficits have been consistently shown in psychiatric conditions, which necessitates the need to construct a culturally sensitive too...
The current socio-political situation in India has gradually shifted the meaning of leader, power and identity in the Indian higher education system. Normalizing the diverse voices, oppression, concretizing the social categories and policing of education created a crisis of ethics. The majoritarian and populist leadership took the shape of an authe...
This paper examines the social representations of knowledge about the family and school contribution in academic achievement in a sample of elementary grade students, parents and teachers. Previous research explored the social representations of educability (Raty & Snellman, 1998), intelligence (Miguel, Valentim, & Carugati, 2010), academic achieve...
This article draws attention to the meaning of data and reality in social psychology, where everything is in the process, and one complements the other. Since social psychological data matters, data handling and interpretations in terms of cause-effect nexus, best descriptions and claiming of human subjectivities become a vital part of the advancem...
p>What is the future of right-wing politics in India? Is India as a nation laden in the cultural foundation of conservatism and purity or it is a diversity moulded through the power of right-wing into a singular cultural system? The recent crises of right-wing politics in India founded in the new politics of social change where the historical oppre...
Dalit leaders have played a significant role in the lives of lower caste people. They have created a meaningful political identity for Dalits (oppressed) and inspired them in the collective movement for social change. This article critically explores three major theoretically interlinked and contested components, which are Dalit leadership, collect...
The current socio-political situation in India has gradually shifted the meaning of leader, power and identity in the Indian higher education system. Normalizing the diverse voices, oppression, concretizing the social categories and policing of education created a crisis of ethics. The majoritarian and populist leadership took the shape of an authe...
The present work highlight the missing picture of interdisciplinarity in Indian social psychology from a critical cultural perspective. In India, social psychologists’ tried to inculcate the missing picture of ‘indigenous perspective’ from the cultural vantage point. The idea of this article is to explain the problem with claimed indigenous status...
p>The present paper seeks to identify the social representations of the family and school contribution in students’ academic achievement. Earlier studies have taken family and school contribution in terms of taken for granted causal factors but how they are embedded in our everyday understanding and interactions may provide an alternative perspecti...
p>What does the brain mean in a legal domain and how the integration of neuroscience and law goes beyond the practical difficulties highlighted by the social scientists and legal theorists? On the one hand, the legal theorists took it as a conceptual error and on the other hand, advocates of neurosciences took it as a promising emerging field of in...
Consumer mood is not simply a state of mind or general affective enterprise of individuals going to make any choice. It also acts as a moderator in making the person belong to the social world in some way. The act of choosing is an intentional behavior and dependent upon the mood, culture, and social class. The object of choice fit into the accumul...
The current study explored a social identity approach to understand the role of caste identity in the domestic labour market in India. Domestic and other non-domestic scavenging workers form an important human resource of the informal job market system. Earlier research in the context of these workers in India did not link with the critical social...
The present article discusses the measurement of social class in the social psychology of education research. It was evident that social class experiences are conflated with the socioeconomic status (SES) indicators and the subjective measure of the class context was underrepresented. However, this was discussed in Rubin et al (2014) about the inte...
Discusses the indigenization movement of psychology in India, which attempts to develop a context sensitive discipline that can understand the concept of mind and human behavior from the cultural perspective. It emphasizes the culturally bound aspects of human nature and uses methods to explore the ways in which culture emerges from history. Given...
The present paper attempts to interrogate the existing approach to understand academic achievement in the mainstream educational psychology. The paper explores the persistent question of "why academic achievement gap" in the modern society from the cultural ecological and postformalist framework of John Ogbu and Joe Kincheloe respectively. As mains...
The current study examines the role of perceived parental pressure in students' academic performance by exploring test anxiety as a mediator in this relationship. A convenience sampling method was employed to select high school students (n=100) from two schools in Bangalore. Data was analyzed using the bootstrapping method of simple mediation. As p...
Present paper interrogates and discusses the place of interdisciplinary inquiry in the field of social sciences. The focus is on origination, need and the nature of interdisciplinary inquiry and the emerging movements towards the integration of the disciplines. In addition to looking into the politics of interdisciplinarity, present viewpoint tried...
The present paper is an inquiry into the role of the teacher in the context of the dominant Indian value system, an imposed curriculum and teacher-students interactions from the social psychological and critical interdisciplinary perspectives. The role of the school in the present modernist worldview is to frame and impart knowledge which may lead...
The present article attempts to interrogate the role of social psychology in India in providing an emancipatory framework for creating an effective social movement for social change. The history of social psychology in India is driven by historicism presented through an epistemological stance that essentialized the dominant social structure. This a...
The intractable group conflicts, mass killings and genocides around the world attest to the role of humiliation as a negative force causing violence and destruction. Based on the analysis of the speeches of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, the most important leader of Dalit (ex-untouchables) in India, we suggest that leaders possess the capacity for creative use...
This study tried to explore the ways in which the construct of academic achievement and failure is conceptualized and represented among different social categories based on educational roles. It was indicated that social representations of academic achievement and failure function in broader social contexts. Findings also suggested that academic ac...
The academic achievement of low social class students has been attributed to lack of ability and their socioeconomic Status (SES). However, a recent meta-analysis reported decreasing relationship between SES and academic achievement in the U.S. population (Sirin, 2005). The present study attempted to explore the relationship between social class id...
The present paper interrogates the dominance of formal education. As formal education system relies on ability based academic achievement as a goal, exploring post-formal approaches, such as sociocultural notion of academic achievement is the hallmark of present paper. An attempt is made to interrogate the existing cultural dominance in formal educ...
Present study attempts to interrogate the dominant trait based approach of leadership and tried to relook it from group perspective. Investigation was conducted in two phases where teachers were asked about the quality of ideally effective leader they would prefer. The obtained responses were thematically transformed into broader variable which wer...
The present review attempts to examine the present status of educational leadership highlighting the role of macro-level facets in Asian Pacific context. The conceptualization of educational leadership among researchers so far had been found to vary according to different contexts and situations. Theoretical perspectives associated with educational...
Sudhir Kakar is a psychoanalyst, psychohistorian, and in a broader sense, a cultural psychologist who strengthened the position of Indian Psychology with a perspective that is not only self-directing but based on deep sociocultural understanding. As a student of Eric Erikson, a psychosocial developmental theorist, and as a culturally oriented psych...
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Questions (5)
Student and teacher form a meaningful group in any educational space. How Covid-19 is going to affect this?
How to reach a factual understanding of anything? What is the role of the past, present and future? Do the facts shift?
The understanding of fact about something in the past, does matter in the present?
What is the difference between hard and soft psychological sciences?
Is there a need for this dichotomy in psychology?
Some of the institutions usually encourage a systematic form of methodological use, may be not suited for all the contexts and groups. How Research & Ethics committee may help researchers in avoiding the possible epistemic violence, where people usually engage in getting their work addressed in some of the high impact factor journals which university and institutions prefer?
Simple studies in social psychology are needed to directly connect with society. It seems that complex research loaded with experiments, number of studies and dominant methodology are not doing any good to improve the sociopolitical situation of powerless and marginalized.
