Assistant Professor
EdD (Teachers College, Columbia University)
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Research Interests: Critical Childhood and Youth Studies, Gender, Citizenship, Ethnography
Mary Ann Chacko is an Assistant Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences. Her research interests include critical childhood and youth studies, the role of police in schools, gender, citizenship, and qualitative methods, especially ethnography . She has a doctorate in Curriculum Studies from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.
Dr Chacko began her teaching career at Montfort Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School, Tamil Nadu. She also worked as a Guest Lecturer in Siliguri BEd College, North Bengal University and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. She joined Ahmedabad University in January 2018.
Using anthropological methodologies, my first research project examined the Student Police Cadet programme implemented in government schools across Kerala, India with a focus on youth citizenship and school-community relations. I studied the different collaborations, educational spaces, and pedagogical practices through which a cadet programme trains young people to be ‘participatory citizens’ in contemporary India. I am currently studying the experiences of Muslim women in higher education settings in India. I am also the Founding-Editor of Sociological and Anthropological Studies of Education in India (SASEI).
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