Ramanujam Meganathan

Ramanujam Meganathan
National Council of Educational Research and Training | NCERT · Department of Education in Languages

M.A., M.Phil., M.Ed., M.A. (Lancaster) PGDTE, Ph.D

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Introduction
I am language pedagogue, teacher trainer, materials developer, curriculum expert in second language teaching-learning.
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November 2000 - present
National Council of Educational Research and Training
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  • Professor

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Publications (23)
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Talk delivered in the 14th All Kerala CBSE Principals’ Conference held October 2 and 3, 2023 at Hotel Gokulam Park, Kaloor, Kochi organised by Confederation of Kerala Sahodaya Complexes, Kerala
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Embracing Multilingualism in Classrooms in alignment with National Education Policy 2020 and National Curriculum Framework for School Education 2023, India Education is an inevitable component for human development, national development and social change. The need for Education as a new ‘social contract’ (UNESCO, 2021) to be rooted in the society...
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This is a book on Education, Knowledge and Curriculum authored by Prof. M.V. Srinivasan and I. This book presents the basic tenets of curriculum from current Indian and global perspectives. Education and Knowledge as perceived and practiced in school education by different stake holders are explroed. Would serve as a textbook as well as a research...
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Metamorphosis of English language from library language to language of upward mobility (Meganathan 2011) and the “political response to social demand” for the (English) language (NCERT in Language attainments and learning opportunities: Pointer for a new curriculum framework, 2005) has resulted in language-in-education policy crisis both in school...
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English language education in India is vast and complex. Research, both in school and higher education during the current and last decades reflects the felt realities and the idealism and warrants addressing the needs of new millennium. This review of research traces language policy and the role and place of English language in education, multiling...
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This is a short commentary on the role and place mother tongues in the draft National Education Policy 2019 in India
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Metamorphosis of English language from library language to language of upward mobility (Meganathan, 2011) and the 'political response to social demand' for the (English) language (NCERT, 2005) has resulted in language-in-education policy crisis both in school and higher education in India. The demand for the language both as a language and as a med...
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This is complete book on Language Across the Curriculum published by Pearson. It covers all aspects and components of Language Across the Curriculum - language in learning and learning in language. The book is meant for teacher trainees, teacher educators, practising teachers, researchers in language education, Content and Language Integrated Learn...
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This paper presents the perceptions of learners and teachers on various aspects of English language education as it happens in two government-run rural schools in the state of Tamil Nadu. Initially the paper presents the language profiles of learners and their opinions on various aspects on English language education in their schools and classrooms...
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This study explores English language teaching in multilingual situations, where learners speak more than two languages. The following issues were investigated in two multilingual schools in New Delhi 1. the role of English and the English language curriculum 2. English language teaching-learning processes and classroom practices 3. the perceptions...
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The complexity of the Indian nation-state draws majorly from the fact that there was and can never be a uniform acceptance of a singular language. Given this context, language has become a major bone of contention between the states and the center impacting issues of integration, educational dissemination and regional deprivation. The piece that fo...
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This paper traverses through the ideas of emergent literacy in today’s context. Having raised the question of ‘How children learn?’, it moves on to present various ways and means emergent literacy occurs in children and the importance of pre-literacy development as foundation for formal learning in and outside school. The paper also presents acts a...
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This article provides ideas on how to introduce the English language to children who enter school for the first time in situations where the English language is taught as a second or third language. Children do not have any familiarity with the language outside the school.
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This chapter presents one aspect of the linguistic landscape (LL) of Delhi by focussing on the written texts found in public spaces (Lefebvre 1991). Research in LL can be instrumental in encouraging language revival and in questioning the exercise of power and language hegemony (Shohamy 2015). The closer study of signs and other public documents in...
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This paper attempts to present a critical review of the current state of English language education in schools in India in view of the prevalent pedagogical policies and practices. Different types of schools in the different school systems and typologies of teaching situations, the diverse nature of curriculum, syllabi, materials development, and t...
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This chapter explores language policy-making processes in the Indian context, implementation issues and the place and role of English in school education. Language in education policy derives from the Indian Constitution which guarantees linguistic rights to all citizens; most importantly, members of minority groups (both religious and linguistic)...
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This paper presents some of the processes of recent curricular revision and materials development in English at the national level in India, especially as these relate to the initiatives of NCERT (National Council for Educational Research and Training). Teacher’s needs and wants, their participation in the development of materials, the choices teac...
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This research explored the management devices followed in successful schools in the Indian context. In-depth case studies of three successful Navodaya schools were carried out. The schools were identified on the basis of the academic performance of students in the last three years in the national examinations and their participation in co-curricula...

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Curriculum change is an essential part of regular exercise which every country carried to bring out a qualitative improment in education. Curriculum studies from the change perspective has been studied from the European and American contexts. I would liken to know any such studies in Asian and African contexts?

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