Professor Maya Ratnam has been awarded the prestigious New India Fellowship

Research by Dr Ratna Ghosal

Pedagogy and the Language of Disciplines

Thinking about the question of pedagogy needs us to reflect on the “skills” pertinent to different forms of disciplinary knowledge. This article reflects on an experiment in designing a writing course with the explicit intention of making students appreciate the manner in which a consensual regime of facts is established so that it could become the basis for higher-order activities like argumentation.