DR. RAMJIT KUMAR

BASIC INFORMATION :

• Name: DR. RAMJIT KUMAR
• Gender: Male
• Department: Sociology
• Specialization: Autonomous

Educational Background:

Award:

• Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) cum National Eligibility Test (NET), Sociology Endowment (2010)

Membership:

• Society for Social Studies of Science (S4), Indiana, US
• Indian Sociological Society (ISS), New Delhi, India

Certificate of Participation:

• Participated in online Executive Development Program for Professionals held in August 2021 organised by School of Law, Manipal University Jaipur

• Participated in Executive Development Program for Educational Administrators in Dec 2020 organised by School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Manipal University Jaipur

• Participated in the Faculty Development Program titled “Skills and Strategies for Personal and Professional Excellence” in Nov 2021 organised by Directorate of Teacher Empowerment Centre and Team HR, Manipal University Jaipur

Presentation at National Conference and Seminar:

• Presented a paper titled, “Education in the Age of Knowledge Society: The Growing Proximities of Changing Dynamics of Knowledge, Science, and Society” at RUSA sponsored National Conference on, Changing Perspectives of Education in India at Patna Women’s College, Patna (Bihar), in February 2018.

• Presented a paper titled “Towards Development of a Scale Based on the Concept of Science Field in Indian Society” at International Conference to Review Research on Science, Technology and Mathematics Education epiSTEME 7, Homi Bhabha Center of Science Education and Research (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Mumbai in 2018.

• Presented a paper titled “Theorising Science and Pedagogy” at XLII All India Sociological Conference, at Tezpur Central University on December 27-30, 2016.

• Presented a paper titled “Subaltern, Nationalism and the Possibility of Third-space in the Textbooks” in International Seminar organized by Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi.

• Presented a paper titled, “Bihar: A Bird’s Eye View: Then & Now” in a National Seminar organized by Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Shimla & Department of Sociology, Patna University at Patna.

• Presented a paper titled, “Minorities, Identities and Construction of Others” in a National Seminar organized by Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia University & Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.

• Presented a paper titled, “Teaching –Learning Theory: Constitutive Aspect of Theory and Its Relationship with Practice” in a workshop organized by Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia University New Delhi.

• Presented a paper on “Feminist Resistance against Neo-Developmental Paradigm” in a national seminar organized by Department of Sociology, JMI (New Delhi) & SHRUTI.

International Conference Paper Presentation:

• Presented a paper titled, “Reporting the Conceptualisation, Measurement, and Validation of a Sociological Construct called “The Science Field” for the Public Understanding of Science in Indian context at International Conference on Applied Scientific Computational Intelligence using Data Science (ASCI-2020) held on 22-23 December 2020.

• Presented a paper titled, “Being Scientific Mode of Education at the verge of STS and Science Education” at Annual Conference of Society for Social Studies of Science at Sydney, Australia in August 2018.

• Presented a paper titled, “Science, Education, and the Public: A New Approach to Assessment of Scientific Literacy” at “Science in Public Conference 2018” at Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK in December 2018.