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Dr. Amruth G Kumar is a research awardee of University Grants Commission, New Delhi. He was awarded with certificate of merit for teaching based on the student assessment for five times consecutively when he was Assistant Professor at Pondicherry Central University. He has published four books. He has several research papers for his credit in National and International journals. Presently he is the Project head of PMMM National Mission on Teachers and Teaching School of Education at CUK, a prestigious project of Ministry of Human Resource Development Ministry, Government of India. This project is mainly intended to empower teachers working at various levels. Dr Amruth's scholarly interests include critical theory in education, Neoliberal policies in education and policy analysis in education. Dr. Amruth critically probes in to the influences of neoliberal policies in shaping the psyche of stakeholders of education. Exploring the ramifications of neoliberal economy, Dr Amruth attempts to build up a broad framework for pedagogic interference to empower the teachers and students. He prefers to combine quantitative and qualitative approaches in his research. He draws a lot from Poetry, literature and philosophy in his teaching and research.
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