The Vedamani Manuel School of Education wish to bring out a commemorative volume of Jokes shared by N.V.M. as its first publication. Those who remember such narratives are requested to post it soon to the blog or send to bendict67@gmail.com. The contributions will be duely acknowledged and all possible credits will be made available. The narratives will be analysed and re-framed from an academic and integrated educational theory dimension before publication. Entries can be in any language-English, Malayalam, Tamil or Hindi. We wish to bring out the volume by the end of 2012.
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
FIRST VEDAMANI MANUEL AWARD FOR RESEARCH ON SOCIALLY CHALLENGED POPULATIONS PRESENTED TO DR. VIJAYALAKSHMI
The maiden Dr. N. Vedamani Manuel Award for Research on Socially Challenged Populations was presented to Dr. Vijayalakshmi, former principal of S.N.Training College, Nedunganta, Varkala by Padmasree Dr. K. Viswanathan of Mtihrnikehan Vellandu in the commemoration seminar of Dr. N. Vedamani Manuel held at the Department of Educaion , Universiy of Kerala yesterday the 22nd of May 2012. The award carries a Memento besides a cash prize. The seminar was inaugurated by Dr. A. Sukumaran Nair, former Vice Chancellor of M.G.University, Kottayam. The commemoration programme was part of the Dr. N.P.Pillai Centennial Celebraion. Many agencies like Council for Teacher Education (CTE) Kerala State Chapter, Sivadasan Pillai Foundation for Educational Research and Development (SPFERD), Vigyan International Foundation for Education, State Resource Centre and Department of Education collaborated in the organisation of the commemoration programme. Dr. K. R. Sivadasan, former Dean of Education, University of Kerala presided over the meeting. Dr. C. P. Sreekantan Nair, Chirman, CTE, Kerala Chapter launched the Blog - Vedamani Manuel School of Education (drnvedamanimanuel.bogspot.in) The theme of the seminar 'Education of Marginalised-Role of NGOs' was presented by Sri. Pratheesh from Mithranikethan. A gathering of over 100 comprising Students of Dr. N.V.Manuel, Academicians, Teachers, Research Scholars and Master Degree Scholars was part of the august assembly gathered to retreat the life and contributions of a rare specimen of a researcher par excellence of the contemporary history of India like Dr. Nathanael Vedamani Manuel. Dr. K. Viswanathan was also honoured in the occasion as a mark of respect to his contributions in the developmental education movement through Mithranikehan a fond area of Dr. Manuel's academic pursuit. - Benedict
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Sunday, 20 May 2012
A glimpse of the legendary life of Dr. N. Vedamani Manuel
Dr. N. Vedamani Mauel
Born(Ne) : 24 August 1923 at Sawyerpuram,
Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu
Designation : Retired Professor of
Education, University of Kerala
Date of Demise: 11.08.2008
Last Office Occupied :
Dean CETED
No 8, Soorya GardensSasthamangalamTrivandrum 695 010
Permanent Residential address at Trivandrum :
40 Kairalinagar, Kanchiramapara, Trivandrum 659 5030, Tel : 0471-2361965
Academic Qualification
B.A. (1942) Triple Second class; Chemistry main (III Part);
Madras University
M.Ed. (1946) First Class, First Rank, Thesis on Science curriculum, Madras
University
M.A. (1950) Second Class I Rank, Tamil Language & Literature, Madras
University
M.A. (1953) Second Class I Rank, Philosophy, Madras University
Certificate in French (1966), Alliance Francaise, Madras;
Lang lab course (1967) L.ADIF, Lyons
Diploma in German (1972) First Class I Rank; Kerala University
Diploma in Russian (1973) First Class II Rank; Kerala University
Attended hundreds of Extension Programmes for teachers for nearly five decades-
Highlights:
1. Bloom’s (First) Evaluation Workshop, Baroda, 1957 (Participant)
2. Summer Institute in Chemistry, CHEM
Study, Annamalai University (six weeks) with Californian team as
resource (Participant)
3. Attended several workshops and conferences in India and abroad in
education, psychology, literature, linguistics, science, development,
environment, habitat, music, musicology, cultural, history, philosophy etc.
Experience
Demonstrator in Chemistry in Intermediate Colleges: 3 years
School Teacher: high school: 3 years; training school: 1 year
In Training Colleges: Lecturer 7 years; Professor; 5 years
In University Dept. of Education: Reader 4 ½ years, Professor 7 ½ years
Research Officer, South Indian Teacher’s Union Council of Research: 3 years
Research Officer, World Confederation of Organisations of Teaching Profession,
Delhi 1 year
UNESCO, Chief Technical Adviser (D1), National Teachers Institute, Nigeria, 1
year.
After
Superannuation, Founding Director Academic Staff College:
1 year
Director, Centre for Educational Research, Innovation, Development,
Mirtraniketan: 4 years
Held several nonformal positions of consultancy, of special lectureships,
guidance.
Now Peripatetic Participant Researcher Dean and Dean, CETED (Centre for
Technology for Development, Trivandum-10 (Tel:2726034)
Directed or served as resource person in several workshops-Highlights:
Stephen Corey’ Action Research workshop for teachers, Coimbatore-20 1959
Directed Curriculum Workshop with Marcella Lawler as resource person (Columbia
Uni) ‘60
While participating as resource person in scores of workshops organized by
NCERT/SCERT, attempted to make them democratic, interactive and relevant to
real issues on the ground wherever possible: In the early phase of Academic
Staff College work as Director and as Resource Persons tried out the
intersection of modern developments in processing deep and abstract concepts in
a form suitable to young mind and in disadvantaged settings focussing of the
structure of various disciplines (which could embrace and generate a mass of
content) The thrust in this approach is to use pedagogy and other processing/communication
disciplines in interaction with the content disciplines taught in colleges and
schools-rather than presenting content and method/pedagogy as separate inputs,
expecting them to get integrated in the trainee somehow: in environmental
approaches including the setting and the contexts too as interaction factors.
In this way interacted with the late 1960s experimental curriculum groups in
Chemistry presided by Dr. (Fr. Yeddnapalli (Loyala College, Madras)-
overall co-ordination and guidance by Dr CNR Rao, Bangalore; The latest in
this area is National
Chemistry Symposium (Chennai) 7-9: In physical education and sports interacted
with National Seminar on Trends and Challenges (University of Kannur)
February 2003.
The maximum of such pedagogy-discipline interaction was in Linguistics and
Language at International School of Dravidian Linguistics and in music with
Kalaimamani Dr. Vasantha Srinivasan, Tuticorin and her circle of distinguished
musicians and with Dr. A. Sukumaran Nair.
In 1990 master-minded and organized the workshop on Mapping of Educational
Innovations from Below at CERID, Mitraniketan with financial support from NCERT.
Held positions in apex bodies relating to Teacher Education:
Member, UGC Teacher Education Panel, 1973-76
Member of many committees of NCERT, particularly those dealing with teacher
education from about 1974-84. Member of Governing Board of NCERT 1982-85.
In research, guided about 100 Masters’ level theses and 35 Ph.D theses; most of
them were done from a teacher-like/participant stance, adding some new
theoretical contribution applicable in practice. The important areas are :
Science education, environmental education, music education, language
education, developmental education, education of the disadvantaged, philosophy,
cultural history, cultural variations and educational adaptations-especially
with the tribes and other ‘culturally different’ groups. Just now giving
more ‘grounding’ to the approaches with the collaboration of creative teachers,
and Kerala Sastra Parishat workers. It is also planned to direct Habitat
Education activities and tribal education research on these lines, Deep
constructs have been developed during the past four years at CETED in
educational integrations with tribals and forest personnel: facilitated by
Dr.C.V. Ananda Bose when he was principal secretary holding SC/ST and forest
portfolios.
Life Member: All India Association for Educational
Research, HQ
Buhubaneswar; Pondicherry Institute of Language and
Culture: Dravidian Linguistics Association (International School of
Dravidian Languages, Trivandrum;
“INDIS”, Trivandrum; Madras Philharmonic Society.)
Member : Libraries of British
Council, Alliance Francaise, Kerala University and
SCERT
Publications/Papers:
Published ten books/booklets, most of them relating to
education and research. Published or read in scholarly conferences about 150
papers. A few exemplars from the early, middle and the latest phases are given:
Early Phases : To major papers
The concept of dreams in early Tamil literature, Madras
Psychological Society, 1955.
Indian Psychology as Revealed in early Tamil literature
(Indian Science Congress, Agra, 1956)
Some major landmark papers in education from 1972 to 1999:
National Lectures in Education (UGC-sponsored) 1980-81:
Reconstructive approaches to education in the context of an
ancient heritage
Environmental approaches to education: a means of enlivening
formal and nonformal education.
Tapping the hidden curricula in work experience and folk art
forms: a way of positive intervention, favouring the very disadvantaged groups.
Innovation, diffusion and distortion in education.
Education as dialogue: an analysis of multiple forms in
formal and nonformal education.
Models of adaptation of education in multilingual and
multicultural contexts.
The relevance of Piaget in the modern educational context.
Other important papers in this period:
1. Some aspects of the theory of communication and teaching
in Tamil literature, First All India Dravidian Linguistics Conference,
Trivandrum 1972.
2. Research in Textbooks, National Seminar on Research,
NCERT, 1973.
3. Trend Report on Research in Philosophy of Education. In
Buch (ed) Survey of Research in Education, Vol. I &II, 1974, 1978
4. Sociology of Knowledge as Revealed from Malayalam
Sources, World Malayalam Conference, 1977.
5. A comparison of English syntax and Tamil-Malayalam syntax
from the reference point of scientific and mathematical syntax, and its
implication for teaching, world Malayalam conference, 1977.
6. Professionalism as an input in Teacher Education. Paper
commissioned by Research Cell of National Commission for teachers 1, December
1983.
7. (a) Formative use of intelligence tests for the
culturally disadvantaged ; (b) Constructs for culture-fair measurement of
intelligence in a multilingual society. National Seminar on Intelligence
Testing , NCERT, 1984
8. Teacher’s and Mental health professionals’ Collaboration.
Dialogue paper, National Institute for Mental Health and Neurosciences,
(NIMHANS) Bangalore 1985
9. Sikhamen paryavaran-upagame:aupacharik aur anaupacharik
siksha men nava jivan sanchar ka sadan (Hindi version of paper on Environmental
Education as means of enlivening formal and nonformal education), NCERT Silver
Jubilee Souvenir, 1986.
10. Education in the Sangam Age, Dravidian Encyclopaedia,
Vol. I. International School of Dravidian Linguistics 1990
11. Innovations in Integrated Education developed at Centre
for Educational Research, Innovation and Development, Conference on Mapping of
Educational Innovation, CERID and NCERT, Trivandrum, 1990.
12. Educational Research in the 21st Century: A
Reconstructionistic and Transdisciplinary View, Golden Jubilee of Entering
Service Seminar, Trivandrum, 1992.
13. Reconstructionistic analysis of the social and
productive context of Mitraniketan as a learning environment for science and
mathematics (CASTME award paper, Manchester, UK) 1992.
14. The Naturalistic-Amoristic Philosophy Reflected in Early
Sangam Literature and its Educational Implications. Indian Philosophy Congress,
Trivandrum, 1993. (Published in PILC Journal of Dravidic Studies 8:2, July
1998, Pondicherry)
15. Reconstructionistic and hermeneutic approaches to
educational history with special reference to Kerala. International Conference
on Kerala Studies , A.K.G. Centre, Trivandrum
Saturday, 19 May 2012
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