Ph.D.s Awarded

Designing and implementing a collaborative teacher professional development model for planning project-based learning in Indian schools [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2024)
Saurav Shome
Advisors: Prof. Savita Ladage & Prof. Sugra Chunawala

Dominance hierarchy as a hidden value in biology: A critical discourse analysis [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2024)
Charudatta Navare
Advisors: Dr. Aswathy Raveendran & Prof. Sugra Chunawala

Problem-Based Learning in Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratories in India [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2024)
Sujatha Varadarajan
Advisor: Prof. Savita Ladage

Conceptualizing Justice-centred Science and Environment Education in the Context of the M(East) Ward in Mumbai [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2023)
Himanshu Srivastava
Advisor: Prof. K. Subramaniam

Empirical studies of students’ conception of Area-measurement, and their implications for Mathematics Education [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2023)
Jeenath Rahaman
Advisors: Prof. K. Subramaniam and Prof. Sanjay Chandrasekharan

Investigating students' alternative conceptions in elementary thermodynamics and developing and testing activity-based modules to address them [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2022)
Shirish R. Pathare
Advisors: Prof. Savita Ladage and Prof. H. C. Pradhan

Touchy Feely Vectors: A design-based study examining the role of representational media in STEM cognition [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2022)
Durgaprasad Karnam
Advisors: Prof. Aniket Sule and Prof. Sanjay Chandrasekharan

Exploring Implications of the Social Model of Disability for Mathematics Education [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2021)
Rossi D’Souza
Advisor: Prof. K. Subramaniam

Investigating and Supporting Teachers' Knowledge of and Responses to Students' Mathematical Thinking [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2021)
Shikha Takker
Advisor: Prof. K. Subramaniam

Inclusive science education in elementary & secondary schools with a focus on strategies for teaching science to students with visual impairments  [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2021)
Amit Sharma  
Advisor: Prof. Sugra Chunawala

Doing to being: Developing pro-environmental motivations through urban farming in schools [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2020)
Deborah Dutta
Advisors: Prof. Sanjay Chandrasekharan and Dr. Ankush Gupta

Transacting inquiry in middle school science classrooms:A study exploring the nature of discourse and a spectrum of outcomes [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2020)
Aisha M. Kawalkar
Advisor: Prof. Jyotsna Vijapurkar

Student Questioning in Student Talk: Understanding the Process and its Role in Doing Science [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2020)
Gurinder Singh
Advisor: Prof. K. K. Mishra and Prof. Karen Haydock

Solving for pattern: An operational-level model to redesign engineering education for sustainability [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2019)
Geetanjali Date
Advisor: Prof. Sanjay Chandrasekharan

Graphicacy issues in school textbooks and designing learning contexts to address them [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2019)
Amit Dhakulkar
Advisor: Prof. G. Nagarjuna

Supporting In-service Professional Development of Mathematics Teachers: The Role of Beliefs and Knowledge [Synopsis][Thesis] (2018)
Ruchi Kumar
Advisor: Prof. K. Subramaniam

Rethinking Representational Competence: Cognitive mechanisms, empirical studies, and the design of a new media intervention [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2018)
Prajakt Pande
Advisor: Dr. Sanjay Chandrasekharan

The cognitive role of external representations in understanding DNA structure [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2018)
Anveshna Srivastava
Advisor: Dr. Sanjay Chandrasekharan

Conceptualizing Critical Science Education through Socioscientific Issues [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2018)
Aswathy Raveendran 
Advisor: Prof. Sugra Chunawala 

Work, Knowledge and Identity: Implications for school learning of out-of-school mathematical knowledge [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2015)
Arindam Bose
Advisor: Prof. K. Subramaniam

Development and evaluation of a concept inventory in rotational kinematics [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2015)
Mashood K. K.
Advisor: Prof. Vijay Singh

Investigating Students', Teachers' and Designers' Ideas about Design and Developing Design Activities for Indian Middle School Students. [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2013)
Farhat Ara
Advisor: Prof. Sugra Chunawala

Cognitive Studies in Relativity [Synopsis] (2011)
Atanu Bandyopadhyay
Advisor:  Prof. Arvind Kumar & Prof. H. C. Pradhan

Spatial Cognition and Visualization in Elementary Astronomy Education [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2011)
Shamin Padalkar
Advisor: Prof. Jayashree Ramadas

Visual Depictions and Mental Visualisation of Human Body Systems in Middle School Students [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2011)
Sindhu Mathai
Advisor: Prof. Jayashree Ramadas

Understanding Causality in Natural Selection: Towards the Problematic of Learning Darwin’s Theory of Evolution [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2009)
Abhijeet Bardapurkar
Advisor: Dr. G. Nagarjuna

Investigating Middle School Students’ Perceptions of Technology and Developing Design and Technology Education Units to Study Students’ Design Productions [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2009)
Ritesh P. Khunyakari
Advisor: Prof. Chitra Natarajan
 

Introducing Indian Middle School Students to Collaboration and Communication Centred Design and Technology Education: A Focus on Socio –Cultural and Gender Aspects [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2008)
Swati Mehrotra
Advisor: Prof. Sugra Chunawala

Developing a Learning Sequence for Transiting from Arithmetic to Elementary Algebra [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2008)
Rakhi Banerjee
Advisor: Dr. K. Subramaniam

Development of Innovative Experimental Problems and Demonstrations in Physics with Suitable Instructional Strategy For them and Investigating their Effectiveness in Laboratory Training [Synopsis] [Thesis] (2001)
Rajesh B. Khaparde
Advisor: Prof. H. C. Pradhan

Interactive Instructional Systems for Elucidating Concepts in Chemistry [Synopsis] (1999)
Syed Safi Athar
Advisor: Prof. Arvind Kumar & Prof. S. C. Agarkar

Identifying Student's Misconcepts and Learning Barriers in Chemistry and Designing and Evaluating Appropriate Remedial Measures
Savita A. Ladage [Thesis] (1995)
Advisor: Shri. V. G. Kulkarni

The Impact of Science Education in Terms of Human Resource Development in Socio-Economically Deprived Groups (With Special Emphasis on Career Selection) [Synopsis] [Thesis] (1992)
Sugra Chunawala
Advisor: Shri. V. G. Kulkarni

Mathematical Modelling of Literacy Progression and Information Diffusion (1995)
Manjusha S. Kulkarni
Advisor: Shri. V. G. Kulkarni & Prof. Arvind Kumar

Developing Instructional  Strategies to Overcome Difficulties in Concept Formation in Science and Mathematics [Synopsis] (1987)
Sudhakar C. Agarkar
Advisor: Shri. V. G. Kulkarni

Curriculum Development in Science Relevant to the Indian School System [Synopsis] (1981)
Jayashree Ramadas
Advisor: Shri. V. G. Kulkarni