Reading, Writing and Thinking in Education

About This Course

This course aims to enable learners to evaluate ideas for their relevance in varied contexts and to use critical reading strategies to map to a variety of texts in the domain of education. It aims to ensure professional competence in critical reading and expression of thought, especially with respect to education.

Course Objectives:

The course aims to:

use a variety of texts across styles and domains to enable students to become critical readers;

enable learners to not merely summarise, but critically analyse and evaluate a text’s ideas in various contexts using reflective thinking models;

Ienable learners to resource a list of thinkers in education and create a multimedia resource pool for other students to become acquainted with the thinkers/ideas and their relevance in current times.

Course Staff

Dr Anusha Ramanathan

Assistant Professor, Mumbai Campus, Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education

Anusha Ramanathan is currently an Assistant Professor (since August 2021) and earlier worked as Curriculum Consultant (2015-21) in the Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education (CETE) formerly known as the Centre for Education, Innovation and Action Research (CEIAR) at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.

She leads TPD English and coordinates the academic aspects of TISSx, an Open edX-based MOOC platform (see https://www.tissx.tiss.edu/) and is a core part of CETE's Continuing Education (Short Term) Programmes (CEP/STP). She is a Co-Principal Investigator for Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx - https://clix.tiss.edu), a UNESCO and OEC award-winning action research initiative funded by Tata Trusts and co-led by TISS and MIT, USA.

She is also the Co-PI and Project Director for Chhattisgarh: Accelerated Learning for a Knowledge-Economy with focus on Teacher Professional Development (CHALK-TPD). She also co-anchors the Madhya Pradesh NIPUN Professionals (MPNP) programme that focuses on Foundational Learning and Numeracy (FLN) as part of Mission Ankur.

She teaches Language Education, Assessment, Critical Reading and Academic Skills courses across MA Education, BEd-MEd, MA Education for Teacher Educators from Afghanistan programmes. She also designs, develops and facilitates MOOCS and workshops on Assessment, EdTech, Language and Literature, Mentoring Policy and Research.

She, further, conducts and guides research in the areas of humanities, language and teacher education.

Her expertise lies in English Language Teaching, English Literature, Assessment and Evaluation, Critical Humanities, technology-based learning and Teacher Professional Development.

Her two publications worth mentioning are Language Education: Teaching English in India published by Routledge and the 2021 UNESCO State of Education Report, India - No Teacher, No Class.

She is the India representative in the Asian Association for Language Assessment (AALA). She is also Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Technology for ELT (JTELT).

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I access the course on a smartphone?

You can access the course via TISSx app on your smartphone. You can install the app from Playstore.

Whom do I contact for further information?

Email at: maet@clixindia.org

What web browser should I use?

The Open edX platform works best with current versions of Chrome, Firefox or Safari, or with Internet Explorer version 9 and above.

See our list of supported browsers for the most up-to-date information.

CETE-TISS: MAET-PC01 Reading, Writing and Thinking in Education