Karanam Pushpanadham is a distinguished professor in the field of Educational Management at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India. He currently leads the Department of Educational Administration at the university. His work spans over 30 years, contributing extensively to research, teaching, and community outreach in education. He has guided numerous Ph.D. scholars and served as a consultant on several educational initiatives, particularly in teacher development and leadership. He is the Officer on Special Duty for Ph.D. Programs in the University. He is also the Coordinator for Implementing National Education Policy(2020) in the University and  liaising with the Ministry of Education, Government of Gujarat. He was born in a traditional teachers' family. His initial schooling was in Vizianagaram of Andhra Pradesh. He was graduated from Andhra University and completed M.Ed. from Regional Institute of Education, (NCERT) , Mysore. He was awarded M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.  

In addition to his work in India, Prof. Pushpanadham has held visiting professorships at international institutions such as Stockholm University in Sweden, Aarhus University in Denmark, University of Cork, Ireland, University of Porto, Portugal, and universities in Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia . He has been involved in various projects, including collaborations on global citizenship education and rural transformation through education. He is International Coordinator of a Research network on Digitization of Higher Education at the ASEM LLL Hub and representing DAAD at the Asia- Europe Meeting on Lifelong learning. He has visited several countries and addressed academic forums and research collaborative meetings. Currently he is working in the area of Education for Global Citizenship with Swedish Council for Higher Education, Education for Rural Transformation with MGNCRE Government of India and Educational Leadership and Management with University of Teacher Education, Switzerland. He was the resource person at the Asia -Europe Foundation for the various research and development prorgammes.

He is also a member of several prestigious academic bodies, including the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), and serves on the editorial boards of multiple national and International academic journals. He was the co-chairman of Curriculum Development of Committee for Integrated Teacher Education Program (ITEP) of NCTE, Government of India. He was the member of selction boards such as UPSC, Central Universities, NCERT etc.,. He has guided 10 doctoral students who were awarded Ph.D. and has been guiding 8 students for their doctoral research in Education and Educational Management.    
 

 

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• Professor and Head, Department of Educational Administration, Faculty of Education and Psychology.

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• University Co-coordinator, Implementation of National Education Policy( 2020)

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• Officer on Special Duty, PhD Programs of the Maharaja Sayajirao Univesity of Baroda

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• Teaching in the Faculty of Education and Psychology, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda for the last 30 years in the area of Teacher Education and Educational Management, conducting research and community outreach programs, guiding doctoral research scholars, providing consultancy services in Total Quality Management in Education, Teacher Development and Educational Leadership. 

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• Member, Western Regional Committee, National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), Government of India, New Delhi.    

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• Co-Chair, Committee for developing curriculum for four year Integrated Teacher Education Program of National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), Government of India.

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• Member of the Senate of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

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• Member of the Senate, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Ministry of Textile, Government of India . 

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• Coordinator of DSA-II Research Project of University Grants Commission, Government of India in the Department of Educational Administration.

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• Academic Advisory Member, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology-IIT, Jammu 

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• Dean of Students and Dean of Sports, Faculty of Education and Psychology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda(2020). 

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• Member of Academic Board, School of Education, Tezpur University, Assam.

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• Member of Academic Board, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.

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• Member of Resource Team of various organizations like NAAC, UGC, NCTE, NCERT, NIEPA etc.

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• Swedish Institute’s Guest Fellowship at the Institute of International Education (IIE), Stockholm University, Sweden. 

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• SASNET Visiting Scholar Fellowship at School of Education, Jonkoping University, Sweden.

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• Erasmus Mundus Visiting Professor fellowship at the Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

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• Co-ordinator of E-ASEM of ASEM Lifelong Leaning Hub, University College Cork, Ireland.

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• Academic Consultant to British Council on Global Teacher Accreditation Programme (GTA), India.

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• Member of the Research Group of Education for Rural Transformation, Department of Education, Stockholm University, Sweden.

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• Indo-Danish Academic exchange Programme on Education for Global Citizenship with Efterschools of Denmark.

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• Visiting Professor at the Assumption University and Burapah University in Thailand.

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• Directed International Training Programmes (ITP) with Life Academy, karlsted, Sweden sponsored by SIDA on ICT and Pedagogic Development .

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• Directed an International Training programme for the District Education Officers of Afghanistan funded by Swedish Committee for Afghanistan, SIDA.

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• Editorial Board Member of several national and international Journals on Education.

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• Member of Selection Board, Union Public Service Commission, Government of India

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• Member,  Member Coordinator and Chairman of NAAC Peer team.

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• Resource Person for various training programs of HRDC of various Universities and MALAVIYA MISSION  TEACHER TRAINING CENTRES across the country​

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• Guiding Phd Students in Education and Educational Management.

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• Published Books, Monographs and research articles in various journals 

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