Interiors of a Classroom: Influence on the Teaching Learning Process

Dr. Renu Malaviya is a Sr. Reader at the Department of Education, Lady Irwin College. She teaches Educational Psychology and Methods of Teaching. She has her doctoral degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University on the psycho-social interaction of family and school and its influences on the school going child. She has a masters in Child Development from Lady Irwin College (DU) and another in Education. During the over two decades of her work in the field of education and educational guidance and counseling, she has been involved in conducting workshops for in-service and pre-service teachers and school administrators, in-service and pre-service school counselors, special educators, as well as for parents and children on issues such as pedagogy, educational conseling, networking with the school personals, specific learning difficulties (SLD) inclusive education, the role of family and school, parenting, needs of children and so on. She has a number of papers publications to her credit. She also writes for newspapers, and appears on education related programmes on television. She has been associated with development of course material on different areas related to school education, and children with ILO, IGNOU, NIOS, NCERT, SCERT and DAV. This is her second book. She is in the process of writing her next book on Pedagogy.