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Krishna Kumar is an Indian intellectual and academician, noted for his writings on the sociology and history of education. [1] He is currently an Honorary Professor in Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. His academic work involves a wide range of themes, including the school curriculum as a means of social inquiry, gender, peace education, and the role of language among others. His work is notable for its critical engagement with modernity in a post-colonial society and neo-liberal discourse in education. As a teacher and bilingual writer, he has developed an aesthetic of pedagogy and knowledge that aspires to mitigate aggression and violence and encourage introspection. In addition to his academic work, he also writes literary books, essays and short stories in English and Hindi for adults as well as children. Thank You, Gandhi is his most recent literary book. He has taught at the Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi, from 1981 to 2016 where he served as the Dean and Head of the institution. From 2004 to 2010, he was Director of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), an apex organization for curricular decision making in India. He was awarded the Padma Shri by the President of India in 2011. The Institute of Education (IoE), University of London, awarded him an Honorary D.Litt. in Education in the same year.
Born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, in 1951, Krishna Kumar grew up in Tikamgarh, a district town in Madhya Pradesh (MP) where he went to school and college. He completed his higher education at the University of Saugar, Madhya Pradesh and the University of Toronto where he attained Ph.D. in educational theory.
Krishna Kumar started his teaching career at Kirori Mal College of Delhi University in 1971. Krishna Kumar joined the Central Institute of Education, Delhi University, in 1981. He served Delhi University till 2016 as Professor. He has been a National Lecturer of the University Grants Commission, a Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, a visiting fellow at the Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin, the Centre for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, and an Erasmus Mundus Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London. He has delivered several memorial lectures, including the Gladwyn lecture in the House of Lords. He was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship to examine the history textbooks of India and Pakistan.
From 2004 to 2010, Prof Kumar served as the Director of National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), [2] Delhi. National Curricular Framework (2005), one of the significant documents pertaining to school education in the past decade, was prepared under his leadership along with position papers on key issues on Education. [3] This was followed by the development of NCERT textbooks from Grades I to XII which were created through unprecedented collaboration between large number of academicians, field practitioners, schoolteachers, teacher educators, journalists, activists, and researchers. He pioneered several organizational structures during his tenure such as setting up a Reading Cell, to focus on issues of early literacy in Indian classrooms and developing a series of English textbooks for rural children.
Books in English:
* Battle for Peace (Penguin, 2007). Translated into Hindi and published by Rajkamal.
Edited volumes:
Perspective Paper:
Books in Hindi:
Books for children:
Professor Kumar has also published a number of research papers and articles in journals. He contributes frequently to Economic and Political Weekly, The Hindu, Indian Express and Hindustan Times.
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