Indira Vijaysimha
Indira Vijaysimha was a professor at School of Education, Azim Premji University. She has worked as a member of the Academics and Pedagogy group of Azim Premji Foundation where she headed the Teacher Preparation unit. Her work at the foundation was in the area of curriculum development and implementation of elementary teacher education programs in two states - Chattisgarh and Uttarakhand. In addition to this, Indira spear headed a two year quality improvement program in collaboration with a B. Ed college. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was a faculty member for the M.A. El. Ed program at TISS, where she developed and taught a course on Teacher Professional Development. Indira completed her doctoral studies at National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, where she undertook ethnographic research on the work of science teachers in different types of schools. She was associated as a consultant with the District Quality Education Programme in Chamarajnagar, Karnataka.
Indira is the founder of Poorna Learning Centre in Bangalore, an alternative school which emerged out of Indira’s experiences from home-schooling her own children and from her reflections as a teacher and teacher educator. Poorna Learning Centre promotes inclusive and ecologically sustainable education.
