Ritesh Khunyakari

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

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

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.

Shastri, V., Khunyakari, R., Chunwala, S., & Natarajan, C. (2011). Thinking through design: Teachers explore a design and make task. In S. Chunawala and M. Kharatmal (Eds.), Proceedings of epiSTEME 4 – International Conference to Review Research on Science, Technology and Mathematics Education (pp. 302-308). India: Macmillan.

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.

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, 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.

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., 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.

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.