Swati Mehrotra

Swati’s Ph,D project was titled “Introducing Indian middle school students to collaboration and communication centred design and technology education: A focus on socio-cultural and gender aspects”. Swati is currently an independent education consultant in Singapore.

To know more about Swati’s work, see Research section.

Email: swati.mehrotra[at]gmail.com

Publications

Book Chapters

Mehrotra, S., & Kunyakari, R. (2007). Puppetry as a technological education unit. In M. de Vries (Ed.), Analyzing best practices in technology education (pp. 107-122). The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

In Journals

Mehrotra, S., Khunyakari, R., Natarajan, C., & Chunawala, S. (2009). Collaborative learning in technology education: D&T unit on puppetry in different Indian socio-cultural contexts. International Journal of Design and Technology Education, DOI: 10.1007/s10798-007-9037-1

Khunyakari, R., Mehrotra, S., Chunawala, S., & Natarajan, C. (2007). Design and technology productions among middle school students: An Indian experience. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 17, 5-22. DOI:10.1007/s10798-006-9017-x

In Conference Proceedings

Khunyakari, R., Mehrotra, S, Chunawala, S., & Natarajan, C. (2010) Implementing D&T education in Indian middle schools: Lessons from trials International Conference on ”Designing for children’- with focus on ‘play’ and ‘learn”, Industrial Design Centre, IIT, Mumbai, February 2-6, 2010.

Khunyakari, R., Mehrotra, S., Chunawala, S., & Natarajan, C. (2009). Studying Indian middle school students’ attitudes towards technology. In K. Subramaniam and A. Mazumdar (Eds.), Proceedings epiSTEME-3: An International Conference to Review Research in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education (pp. 81-87). Mumbai: Macmillan Publishers India Ltd.

Mehrotra, S., Khunyakari, R., Chunawala, S., & Natarajan, C. (2009). Evidences of learning through collaboration in design and technology tasks in Indian classrooms. In K. Subramaniam and A. Mazumdar (Eds.), Proceedings epiSTEME-3: An International Conference to Review Research in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education (pp. 88-93). Mumbai: Macmillan Publishers India Ltd.

Khunyakari, R, Mehrotra, S., Natarajan, C., & Chunawala, S.(2007). Cognition in action in design and technology units among middle school students. In C. Natarajan and B. Choski (Eds.), Proceedings of epiSTEME2: International conference to review research on Science, Technology and Mathematics Education (pp. 126-131). India: Macmillan Publishers India Ltd.

Mehrotra, S., Khunyakari, R., Natarajan, C. & Chunawala, S. (2007). Dialogues in formal communication: A study of students’ talk in a D&T unit in India. In C. Natarajan and B. Choski (Eds.), Proceedings of epiSTEME2: International conference to review research on Science, Technology and Mathematics Education (pp. 73-78). Mumbai, India: Macmillan Publishers India Ltd.

Mehrotra, S., Khunyakari, R., Chunawala, S., & Natarajan, C. (2007). Using pictures and interviews to elicit Indian students’ understanding of technology. PATT 18: Proceedings of the Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Technology (pp. 152-161). Glasgow, UK, July 2007.

Khunyakari, R., Mehrotra, S., Natarajan, C., & Chunawala, S. (2006). Designing design tasks for Indian classrooms. In M. de Vries and I. Mottier (Eds.), PATT 16 Proceedings: Research for standards-based technology education (pp. 20-34). Baltimore, March 2006.

Khunyakari, R., Mehrotra, S., Chunawala, S., & Natarajan, C. (2006) Design and technology productions among middle school students: An Indian experience. In K. Volk (Ed.), Articulating technology education in a global community: Proceedings of the International Conference on Technology Education in the Asia Pacific Region (pp. 63-73). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, January 5-7, 2006.

Mehrotra, S., Khunyakari, R., Natarajan, C., & Chunawala, S. (2006). Learning technology through collaboration: D&T unit for boys and girls in different Indian socio-cultural contexts. In K. Volk (Ed.), Articulating technology education in a global community: Proceedings of the International Conference on Technology Education in the Asia Pacific Region (pp. 280-290). The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, January 5-7, 2006.

Mehrotra, S., Khunyakari, R., Natarajan, C., & Chunawala, S. (2004). Gendered communication in technology tasks: glimpses of group interactions. In epiSTEME1 an international conference to review research on science education, Abstracts of Presentations (pp. 120-121). India: HBCSE.

Khunyakari, R., Mehrotra, S., Natarajan, C., & Chunawala, S. (2004). Design as drawings analyzing drawings of middle school students in technology education tasks. In epiSTEME1 an international conference to review research on science education, Abstracts of presentations (pp. 62-63). India: HBCSE.

Khunyakari, R., Mehrotra, S., Natarajan, C., & Chunawala, S. (2003). Ideas about technology among middle school students in Mumbai: A preliminary analysis of a survey. Background papers to the International Symposium on social production of knowledge through diversity of expressive modes, multiple literacies and bi (multi) lingual relationships (pp. 1-21), Pune, March 5-7, 2003.

Mehrotra, S., Khunyakari, R., Chunawala, S., & Natarajan, C (2003). Using posters to understand students’ ideas about science and technology (Technical Report No. I). HBCSE, 2003.

Mehrotra, S., & Chunawala, S. (2001). Teaching map skills at the third grade. International Conference of Science, Technology and Mathematics Education for Human Development. Volume II, p. 413.

Technical Reports

Mehrotra, S., Khunyakari, R., Chunawala, S., & Natarajan, C (2003). Using posters to understand students’ ideas about science and technology, Technical Report No. I (02-03), HBCSE, 2003.

Ph.D Thesis

Mehrotra, S. (2008).Introducing Indian middle school students to collaboration and communication centred design and technology education: A focus on socio-cultural and gender aspects. Doctoral Thesis. Mumbai: HBCSE, TIFR Deemed University.