Conference program

08:00 am

09:00 am

Registration

09:00 am

09:15 am

Welcome Address

Prof. H. C. Pradhan

Centre Director, HBCSE

09:15 am

10:15 am

Keynote Address

10:15 am

10:45 am

Tea

10:45 am

11:45 pm

Review Talk 1

Helen Longino - Contingent versus constitutive sociality of scientific inquiry (slides)

Stanford University, USA

11:45 pm

12:45 pm

Review Talk 2

Susantha Goonatilake -Navigating the new world, not brave but changing (slides)

Royal Asiatic Society, Sri Lanka

01:00 pm

02:00 pm

Lunch

02:00 pm

03:20 pm

Paper Session 1

 Space-machine

Tanmoy Bhattacharya and Gourshyam Hidam

The social semiotics of mathematics classroom discourse: developing teacher capacity to explore non-routine problems in urban classrooms

Elizabeth de Freitas and Betina Zolkower

Science talk in the inquiry classroom: An analysis of teachers' questions and purposes

Aisha Kawalkar and Jyotsna Vijapurkar

Strategies to promote the introduction of dialogic teaching in multilingual mathematics classes

Lyn Webb and Paul Webb

03:20 pm

03:50 pm

Tea Break

03:50 pm

05:10 pm

Paper Session 2

Shifting the emphasis from cognition to non cognitive values in science education: A case for the inclusion of critical pedagogy in the science curriculum

Grace Sirju-Charran

Conceptions of nature of science of pre service teachers: Implications for science teacher preparation programme

Bharti Dogra

Does the classroom practice of science teachers reflect their conceptions regarding the Nature of Science?

Raj Kurup and Paul Webb

Towards an epistemological map of curriculum in school mathematics

Stephen Thornton

05:15 pm

09:00 pm

Village Haat & Dinner

Indian folk culture, exhibition and sale of artefacts

09:00 am

10:00 am

Review Talk 3

Poonam Batra - Transforming classroom practice: Teacher education and pedagogy in India (slides)

University of Delhi, India

10:00 am

11:00 am

Review Talk 4

David Barlex - Creativity through design & technology (slides)

Brunel University and  Nuffield Design & Technology Project

11:00 am

11:30 am

Tea Break

11:30 am

01:10 pm

Paper Session 3

Students as users and designers: Product evaluation and redesign by Indian middle school students

Farhat Ara, Chitra Natarajan and Sugra Chunawala

Probing students' affective domain in an ICT-enriched course

Madhulika Goyal and Sahana Murthy

VITAL Maths: Visual technology for the autonomous learning of mathematics

Helmut Linneweber-Lammerskitten, Marc Schäfer and Duncan Samson

Thinking through design: Teachers explore a design and make task

Vasant Shastri, Ritesh Khunyakari, Sugra Chunawala and Chitra Natarajan

Examining discourse in a high school robotic club

Geeta Verma, Anton Puvirajah and Price Webb

01:10 pm

02:00 pm

Lunch

02:00 pm

03:00 pm

Panel Discussion

Science Education for Diversity

03:00 pm

06:00 pm

Poster Session & Tea

Teachers' conceptions of interesting, effective and engaging teaching: A case study of four college professors

Vishal Arghode and Bugrahan Yalvac

The learning Physics as one nation initiative: Bypassing the national STEM teacher shortage

Maria Victoria Carpio-Bernido, Christopher Bernido and Carolina Porio

Preparing student teachers to teach mathematics in local languages: Whose responsibility?

Nancy Chitera

Textbook: A source of students’ misconceptions at the secondary school level

Narendra Deshmukh and Veena Deshmukh

Epicyclical astronomy: A case for GeoGebra

Amit Dhakulkar and Nagarjuna G.

Prediction of class 12 physics scores: Does gender matter ?

Paromita Ghosh

Epistemics of quantum mechanics -- A study of ideas held by students and teachers

Manasi Goswami and Bijay Parida

Problem representation in science: The Nature of Science and its effect of experience

Tracy Hogan, John Craven and MaryJean McCarthy

A pedagogic experiment in physics and language-art linkage through acrostic verses at the high school level: an action research

Lalit Kishore

Critical Contextual Empiricism and Its Implications for Science Education

Sreejith K. K.

The 'Ganak' exploration: Helping children to learn about numbers

Pramod Maithil

Set theory made easy through “Set theory multi-operation machine”

N D Maski

Effect of animations in constructing and reconstructing students’ knowledge on mitosis

Animesh Mohapatra and Reena Mohapatra

Connectivism – A breakthrough from the traditional learning theories

Amarendra Narayan and Namita Kumari

Gender issue on the factor analysis of internet usage by Nigerian senior secondary school students

Toyin Owoyemi and Temitope Akanni

Students' understanding of thermal equilibrium

Shirish Pathare and Hemchandra C. Pradhan

Assessment and evaluation methods –the prime factors influencing curricular outcomes

Jayashree Phadnis and Indu Pandit

Assisting learners to construct understanding

Satyawati Rawool

Teachers' understanding of Nature of Science, and their views about environment studies curriculum at primary level

Amit Sharma and Sugra Chunawala

Disciplined environmental action makes difference

V. Gurunadha Rao

Critical literacy in math and science

Laraine Wallowitz, Mary Elizabeth de Freitas, Tracy Hogan and Robert Linne

06:30 pm

08:00 pm

Cultural Program

Indian classical dance form -- Kathak

08:00 pm

10:00 pm

Dinner

09:00 am

10:00 am

Review Talk 5

Masakata Ogawa - Multi-science perspectives and implications for science education (slides)

Tokyo University of Science, Japan

10:00 am

11:00 am

Review Talk 6

Mamokgethi Setati - Research on mathematics and language diversity: 2000 – 2010  (slides)

University of South Africa, South Africa

11:00 am

11:30 am

Tea Break

11:30 am

01:10 pm

Paper Session 4

An analysis of growth of knowledge based on concepts and predicates -- A preliminary study

Meena Kharatmal and Nagarjuna G.

Exploring the structure of knowledge organisation in physics learning

Chandrika B. N. and Meera B. N.

Using diagrams as an effective pedagogic tool in elementary astronomy

Shamin Padalkar and Jayashree Ramadas

Placing information on pegs of time: How to use what we know about serial order memory for better representation and retrieval of knowledge

Shriradha Sengupta

Effectiveness of pictorial concept mapping in the teaching of science

Bijoy Thomas and Geeta Thakur

01:10 pm

02:00 pm

Lunch

02:00 pm

03:00 pm

Paper Session 5

An analysis of graphs in school textbooks

Amit Dhakulkar and Nagarjuna G.

Assessment reform and sustainable change in education - Part I

Anant Gangola, Jagmohan Kathait, Saurabh Rai, Rajiv Sharma, Sanjay Semwal, Ambrish Bisht, Vipin Chauhan, Kailash Kandpal, Sunil Shah, Kamlesh Joshi, Ekta Sharma, and Aanchal Chomal

Assessment reform and sustainable change in education - Part II

Anant Gangola, Jagmohan Kathait, Saurabh Rai, Rajiv Sharma, Sanjay Semwal, Ambrish Bisht, Vipin Chauhan, Kailash Kandpal, Sunil Shah, Kamlesh Joshi, Ekta Sharma, and Aanchal Chomal

03:00 pm

03:20 pm

Tea Break

03:20 pm

07:00 pm

Sight Seeing

City Tour

08:00 pm

10:00 pm

Dinner

Conference Banquet

09:00 am

10:00 am

Review Talk 7

Pratibha Jolly - Research and innovation in Physics education: Transforming classroom teaching and student learning

 University of Delhi, India

10:00 am

11:00 am

Review Talk 8

K. Subramaniam - Finding teaching-learning paths in the domain of multiplicative thinking (slides)

Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Mumbai, India

11:00 am

11:30 am

Tea Break

11:30 am

01:10 pm

Paper Session 6

Opportunity to learn science in the classroom: an implemented curriculum perspective

Neelam Kher, William Schmidt and Richard Houang

Improved science assessments using student perceptions

Rekha Koul

On new system of grading for students' learning of physics

Atul Mody

Educating the rainbow: towards an all inclusive approach to assessment in school science

Vandana Saxena

Raising students' cognitive levels, extending level of textbook questions: Can we do both?

Usha Vishwanathan and Sahana Murthy

01:10 pm

02:00 pm

Lunch

02:00 pm

03:40 pm

Paper Session 7

Instructional sequences: Confronting conceptions of learning & teaching

Anjana Arora

Programs to increase stem graduates: An evaluation of the engineers of tomorrow project

Neelam Kher, Susan Molstad, Reagan Curtis and Gary Winn

Importance of data in teacher training: Two case studies

Somnath Sarkar and Richard Frazier

Construction of an achievement test measuring academic performance in environmental knowledge

Madhumala Sengupta, Mrinal Mukhopadhyay and Pintu Kumar Maji

Teaching feminist science studies in India: An experiment

Chayanika Shah and Gita Chadha

03:40 pm

04:00 pm

Tea Break

04:00 pm

05:40 pm

Paper Session 8

Understanding environment: A study of the urban poor children

Gobind C. Pal

Students' understanding of irrational numbers

Revathy Parameswaran

Science education and Nature of Science: A review with reference to Indian context

Ajeet Rai

Greening the engineering curriculum: A case study from electronics and communication stream

Seemin Rubab

Giraffes don't stretch their necks any more: Useful pieces of knowledge about natural selection

Aditi Wagh and Uri Wilensky

05:45 pm

06:45 pm

Popular Talk

or Film

Amir Aczel - History of Science (tentative and TBC)

Boston University, USA

08:00 pm

10:00 pm

Dinner

09:00 am

10:00 am

Review Talk 9

Jonathan Osborne - Why knowing what’s wrong matters as much as knowing what’s right (slides)

Stanford University, USA (By video conferencing)

10:00 am

11:00 am

Review Talk 10

Nora Newcombe - The whys, whats and wherefores of spatial development (slides)

Temple University, USA (By video conferencing)

11:00 am

11:30 am

Tea Break

11:30 am

01:10 pm

Paper Session 9

CVIF Dynamic Learning Program: A systems approach to process-induced learning

Maria Victoria Carpio-Bernido and Christopher Carpio- Bernido

Using role play in the teaching and learning of kinematics at school certificate level

Mohun Cyparsade, Unniswar Chummun, Sandiren Carooppunnen and Kavish Moheeput

Multiple choice questions and interview as a combined tool for unraveling students' cognitive processes in physics

Balasubrahmanya Hegde and Meera B. N.

Role play based approach for elementary astronomy education

T. V. Venkateswaran

Implications of cognitive studies for teaching physics problem-solving: a review

Lakhan Lal Yadav

01:10 pm

02:00 pm

Lunch

02:00 pm

04:00 pm

Panel Discussion

Science, Technology and Mathematics Education

04:00 pm

04:30 pm

Closing Session

04:30 pm

05:30 pm

Tea

08:00 pm

10:00 pm

Dinner