Manasvini

Dr. Manasvini Srimathi Narayana

Doctoral thesis

The Spatial Turn in History: Implications for Curriculum in Higher Education

In what ways are geo-spatial and visual-spatial ways of knowing impacting knowledge creation in the discipline of History? How is Higher Education curriculum responding?

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From Hate to Hope

An online course that aims to:

  • Explore the dynamics of hate including the ways in which people are manipulated to feel and express hate.
  • Gain strategies for building resilience to hate through dialogue.
  • Integrate best practices for using social media for advocacy.
  • Analyze and develop strategies for using social media to build resilience in different sectors.

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PROFILE

In holding up a mirror to Canadian society, the toolkit serves as a springboard for both individuals and groups to learn, empathize, reflect and explore possible solutions.

The toolkit is organized around five questions:

  1. What is racial and social profiling?
  2. What is the current situation?
  3. How do we unpack profiling?
  4. What is the impasse?
  5. What are some ways forward?

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The Impact of Art Education

This paper reviews key research on the impact and outcomes of Arts Education (AE), with the objective
of demonstrating how AE and its conceptualizations, methodological approaches, theoretical
foundations and applications are closely aligned with the objectives and expectations of quality
education as notably envisioned by Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) on education.

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Research Orientation

Surveys, Focus Groups, Observation, Interviews, Participatory Action Research, Triangulation, Quantitative Analysis, and Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis.