{"id":7,"date":"2017-01-23T08:43:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T08:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~jr\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2021-01-05T10:25:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T10:25:36","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~jr\/index.php\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tifrhcontent\">\n<div class=\"pagemenu-container\">\n<div class=\"contain-text\"><span style=\"color: #0f8bb6; font-size: x-large;\">Jayashree Ramadas<\/span><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/..\/..\/uploads\/jr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"contain-text\"><span style=\"color: #0f8bb6; font-size: large;\">Professor (Retired)<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Email<\/b> : jr at tifrh dot res dot in<br \/>\n<b>Phone<\/b> : +91 44 4743 9108<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"manu-pagecontent-wrap\">\n<h4>Visuospatial reasoning<\/h4>\n<p>(till 2013)<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Science learning in the early years is experiential in nature. The role of school is to create a bridge between informal experiences and formal expression. Field experiences and experimentation, which are integral to the process of science, are mediated through the human sensory and perceptual systems. Research on visuospatial reasoning draws on the perspective of &#8217;embodied cognition&#8217; which links perception and action on the one hand, with abstraction and imagination on the other. Diagrams and gestures are examples of &#8216;epistemic actions&#8217; that connect a lab or field situation with the concepts and models of science.<\/p>\n<h4>Curiosity and questioning<\/h4>\n<p>Research in science education is closely linked with aspects of development and outreach. <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~jr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/BuildingSawaliram-TCIS-JNC-27Sept2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sawaliram 2.0<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eklavya.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eklavya<\/a> of Madhya Pradesh, aims to build an open access multilingual repository and an open source web platform to document and analyse questions asked by children from around the country. The web platform may be accessed at <a href=\"https:\/\/sawaliram.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sawaliram.org<\/a>. The open source code repository for the project is at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sawaliram\/sawaliram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">github.com\/sawaliram\/sawaliram<\/a>. Complementing this global perspective on curiosity, in 2017-20 a local effort in neighbouring Telangana government schools investigated the process of curiosity and questioning in children through classroom interventions and inquiry projects using <a href=\"https:\/\/microcosmos.foldscope.com\/?author=1733\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">foldscopes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jayashree Ramadas Professor (Retired) Email : jr at tifrh dot res dot in Phone : +91 44 4743 9108 Visuospatial reasoning (till 2013) Science learning in the early years is experiential in<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~jr\/index.php\/research\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~jr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~jr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~jr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~jr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~jr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~jr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~jr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tifrh.res.in\/~jr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}