Ritesh did his post graduation in Botany from Savitribai Phule Pune University (formerly known as University of Pune). His Ph.D project was titled “Investigating middle school students’ perceptions of technology and developing design and technology education units to study students’ design productions”. Currently, Ritesh is faculty with Tata Institute of Social Science, Hyderabad.
To know more about Ritesh’s Ph.D work at HBCSE, see Research section.
Email: riteshpk[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
In Conference Proceedings
Shome, S., Shastri, V., Kunyakari, R., & Natarajan, C. (2011). What do students learn from designing and making a playground model?. Proceedings of PATT 25 & CRIPT 8: Perspective on learning in design and technology education (pp. 357 – 366). London: Goldsmiths, University of London.
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.
Ara, F., Kunyakari, R., & Natarajan, C. (2007). A study of middle school students’ depictions of routes based on verbal description and cues. In C. Natarajan and B. Choski (Eds.), Proceedings of epiSTEME2: International conference to review research on Science, Technology and Mathematics Education (pp. 141-145). India: Macmillan Publishers India Ltd.
Khunyakari, R., Chunawala, S. & Natarajan, C. (2007). Comparison of depictions by middle school students elicited in different contexts. In PATT 18- Proceedings of the Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Technology (pp. 210-217). Glasgow, UK.
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.
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.
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.
Other documentation
Natarajan, C., Chunawala, S., & Khunyakari, R. (2004). Vidnyan Ashram, its work and HBCSE, Comments in Dr. Shreenath Kalbag Memorial Seminar Report Smritisathi, Chronicle of Discussion.
Ph.D Thesis
Khunyakari, R. (2008). Investigating middle school students’ perceptions of technology and developing design and technology education units to study students’ design productions. Doctoral Thesis. Mumbai: HBCSE, TIFR Deemed University.