Biography
Dr. Gomathi Jatin is Associate Professor with the Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education, School of Education (formerly CEIAR) at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. With a Ph.D.in Education from the University of Mumbai, she has taught across courses in teacher education institutions and also nurtures keen interest in school and classroom practices. Her areas of interest include teacher education, school education, classroom pedagogy and practices, adolescent psychology, educational leadership and management and research and peace studies, particularly, SEL and NVC. She is the program coordinatoor for the Three year B.Ed. M.Ed. Integrated programme and the school internship activites of the program. She teaches courses - Adolescent Psychology, Educational,Psychology, Management and Administration of Education, and the Education Leadership and Mangement She has conducted workshops related to classroom management, blended learning, cooperative learning, mentoring for action research, negotiation and conflict resolution, team building and people management, etc. She has also conducted communicative English sessions for vernacular medium student teachers to facilitate their English speaking, reading and writing skills. She has worked on projects related to School Management Committees across the states in India (funded by Save the Children), Mainstreaming child labour (funded by NHRC) and Understanding teaching learning in teacher education Institutions (funded by Azim Premji Research Foundation). She has created OERs for various courses as a part of the NCTE-COOL resources. She was actively involved in the formation, management and facilitation of the TALC CoP for teacher educators across the country. She conducted Design based workshops for teacher educators and student teachers on curating OERs and evaluating them. She also anchored the Synergy initiatives of the centre by collaborating with teacher education institutions and extending the activities of the centre to TEIs. She holds positions in various research review committees and also holds membership in academic council body of institutions. She also is a member of the Doctoral Advisory Committee for many Ph.D. students at TISS and outside TISS. Her recent work includes conducting workshops on Peace studies and critical pedagogy in winter schools and at an International conference (Critical Edge Alliance) at Morroco and talks at the Armenian State Pedagogical University conference on Universal Inclusion. She has various publications to her credit. She conducts residential training programs and professional develoipment programs for School Heads, HeadMasters, DEOs, CEOs, and leaders at different levels in the education sector. She has trained many leaders in the education sector from Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Telangana, Bhutan and ICSE school Principals across the country. She designs and offers need-based modules for the participants of the program. She has designed and developed courses on Academic Leadership and proposes to offer a Master's Degree in Education (Academic Leadership) in a blended mode for practitioners in the field of education. She is a UGC listed resource person for the MMMTTC programs for sessions on Multidisciplinary and Holistic Educastion, Student Diversity and Inclusion, Academic Leadership, Assessment and Evaluation, and Adolescent Psychology.