ALT Faculty Publication Update | IMSE Dr. Rashmi Kumari, Assistant Professor at the Indira Mahindra School of Education (IMSE), Mahindra University, has published an open-access research article titled “𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐀 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝.” Published in the 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 (Vol. 12, Issue 1) as part of a special issue on 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐬 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬, the paper was launched at Carleton University on 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 (20 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 2025).

ALT Dr. Rashmi earned her Ph.D. in Childhood Studies from Rutgers University, USA. Her doctoral research, titled “Shaping Indigenous Youth as National Subjects: Role of Education in Central India,” offers an incisive ethnographic account of how education, nation-making, and Indigenous identities intersect in Central India. She was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Critical Childhood Studies Centre, University College London. She received numerous fellowships, including the Rutgers Graduate Fellowship, the South Asia Travel Award, the Rutgers Research Council Award, and the Global Asia Pedagogy Grant, which supported her extensive fieldwork and scholarly engagements.