Faculty Profile

MPhil, PhD in English from RTM Nagpur University; MA (Russian) from EFLU Hyderabad, LLB from RTM Nagpur University, PGDTE from EFLU Hyderabad, MEd (TESOL) from Leeds University, UK

Began career as a primary and then secondary teacher; have been a tertiary level teacher for nearly 30 years now. Also work as ELT consultant, trainer, trainer trainer and research mentor.

Secretary, All India Network of English Teachers (AINET), Member, IATEFL UK, Henry Sweet Society UK, AIAER, AESI

Books

• (With Bolitho, Rod) (In press, 2018) Continuing Professional Development. CUP
• (With Smith, Richard and Bullock, Deborah) (2017) Teaching in Low-resource Classrooms: Voices of Experience. London: British Council
• (2014) Research in English Language Education in Indian Universities: A Directory.Lulu.
• (With Bolitho, Rod) (2012) Continuing Professional Development: Lessons from India. New Delhi: British Council.
• (With Gunashekhar, Paul Pawelec, Daphne) (eds.) (2011) Starting, Stimulating and Sustaining English Language Teacher Education and Development. Chennai: British Council.
• (With Dixit, Krishna) (2010) Continuing Professional Development: An Annotated Bibliography. New Delhi: British Council.

Articles in research journals

• (2018) Supporting teacher researchers: Some issues. ETAS Journal Special Supplement
• (2016) Cultural roots of teacher associations – A case study from India.ELTJ, 70 (2): 160-169.
• (2013) The Question of Culture in Teaching a Language. Sakshep,1: 61-68
• (With Mackenzie, Alan) (2012) Working across cultures – Issues in managing a teachers’ association. Developing Teachershttp://developingteachers.com/articles_tchtraining/tchassoc1_alan_amol.htm
• (With Dixit, Krishna) (2008) Impact of professional learning community participation on teachers’ thinking about classroom problems. TESL-EJ, 12 (3) (http://tesl-ej.org/ej47/a10.html)

Chapters in books

• (Forthcoming, 2018) English language teaching: Critical comments. In Ian Eyres, Robert McCormick and Tom Power (Eds) Sustainable English Language Teacher Development at Scale: Lessons from Bangladesh. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
• (With Dixit, Krishna) (Forthcoming 2018) Intentions of teaching and failures of learning: Teaching-learning English in India.In Nicola McLelland and Richard Smith (eds). The History of Language Learning and Teaching (Volume 3: Across Cultures). Oxford: Legenda.
• (With Parnham, Jon) (Forthcoming, 2018) Teacher networks in the wild – Informal ways teachers can work together for their professional development. In Steve Walsh and Steve Mann (Eds) Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education. Oxford, UK: Routledge.
• (2017) Action research and teacher improvement. In David Hayes (Ed.) Nepal English Language Teaching Research Papers. Kathmandu: British Council.
• (With Dixit, Krishna) (2017) Coping with curricular change: An Indian teacher’s perspective. In Martin Wedell and Laura Grassick (Eds.) International Perspectives on Teachers Living with Curriculum Change. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan
• (With Dixit, Krishna) (2016) Teacher classroom behaviour and teacher motivation. In Matthew Apple, Dexter da Silva and Terry Fellner (Eds.) L2 Selves and Motivations in Asian Contexts. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. 151-171.
• (2016) Rethinking teacher motivation for professional development. In George Pickering and Paul Gunashekhar (Eds.) Ensuring Quality in English Language Teacher Education: Selected papers from the fifth International Teacher Educators Conference, Hyderabad, India, 27 February-1 March 2015. New Delhi: British Council. pp. 35-42.
• (With Dixit, Krishna) (2015) Issues in ESL teacher development in Indian context. In Mike Beaumont and Tony Wright (Eds.) Experiences of Second Language Teacher Education. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
• (With Dixit, Krishna) (2014)CPD Policy ‘Think Tank’: An innovative experiment in CPDthinking. In David Hayes (Ed.) Innovations in the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of English Language Teachers. London: British Council. pp. 249-268.
• (With Dixit, Krishna) (2012). Exploring multiple stakeholders’ views on CPD. In Rod Bolitho and Amol Padwad (eds.) Continuing Professional Development: Lessons from India. Delhi: British Council. pp. 11-22.
• (2011) Professional Development – why bother? In Paul Gunashekhar, Amol Padwadand Daphne Pawelec (Eds.) Starting, Stimulating and Sustaining English Language Teacher Education and Development. Chennai: British Council. pp. 10-15.
• (With Dixit, Krishna) (2011) ELE policy and pedagogy in India: A study of the National Curricular Framework for Teacher Education. In Leslie Farrell, U. N. Singh and R. A. Giri (eds.)English Language Education in South Asia: From Policy to Pedagogy. New Delhi: CUP.pp. 245-257.
• (2010) Towardsunderstanding rural ELT. In Francis Peter (ed.)Indian Voices in ELT. Delhi: Viva Books. pp. 20-27.