Dr Rita Chawla-Duggan
Profile
Previous roles
- Department of International Development: Research Programme Consortia - ‘Implementing Quality Education in Low Income Countries’ (September 2005-10).
- Universities of Bath/Bristol/Cape Coast-Ghana, Dar Es Salaam –Tanzania, Witwatersrand –S.Africa and the Kigali Institute of Education –Rwanda (September 2005-10).
- EdQual Institutional Co-ordinator for Bath; Co-communications manager, member of EdQual Senior Management Team
- Esmee Fairbairn Foundation: Facilitating Father Development Work Practice in Early years Learning (October 2005 – March 2007)
- Sure Start Swindon : Local Evaluation of Programme (October 2002 - March 2005)
- ESRC studentship: Phd Research - Socialisation for Learning : An ethnographic Study of Children in an Indian District in School and Out of School Environments (October 1997 - September.2000)
- ESRC: Interpreting and Implementing Science Curricula and Assessment in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 Primary Classrooms (January 1993 - December 1994 with R.G. Burgess)
Membership
- Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory (CSAT)
- International Society for Cultural Activity Research (ISCAR)
- Organisation Mondiale Pour L'Education Prescolaire (OMEP) - International NGO for Early Years
- European Early Childhood Education Research Association
- Training, Advancement and Co-operation in Teaching Young Children (TACTYC)
- British association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE)
- Early Years Sector UG and Foundation Degree Network UK
- Educational Relationships Cluster – Department of Education
Research interests
- Learner identity
- Child poverty and education in India
- Child poverty and education quality
- Comparative education and early childhood
- Cultural historical activity theory and development work
- Ethnography and education
- The study of childhood
- Fathering
- Children's transitions and early years education
Publications
Book/s
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2007. Children’s Learner Identity as Key to Quality Primary Education - Eight Case Studies of Schooling in India Today. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press.
Chawla-Duggan, R. and Pole, C. J., eds., 1996. Reshaping Education in the 1990's: Perspectives on Primary Schooling. London: Falmer Press.
Pole, C. J. and Chawla-Duggan, R., eds., 1996. Reshaping Education in the 1990's: Perspectives on Secondary Schooling. London: Falmer Press.
Book Sections
Chawla-Duggan, R., Datta, V. and Etsey, K., 2012. Quality and early childhood education: lessons from India and Ghana. In: Tikly, L. and Barrett, A. M., eds. Education quality and social justice in the south: challenges for policy, practice and research. London: Routledge, Chpt 7.
Chawla-Duggan, R. and Lowe, J., 2010. Aims for primary education: changing global contexts. In: Alexander, R., Doddington, C., Gray, J., Hargreaves, L. and Kersher, R., eds. The Cambridge Primary Review research surveys. London: Routledge, pp. 261-281.
Chawla-Duggan, R. and Lowe, J., 2009. Purposes and Values: the changing global context of primary education. In: Alexander, R., ed. The Cambridge Primary Review Surveys. London: Routledge.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2005. 5-8 Years: Educational Transitions from the Foundation Stage up to KS1. In: Dryden, L., Forbes, R., Mukherji, P. and Pound, L., eds. Essential Early Years. London: Hodder Arnold, pp. 117-139.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2005. 5-8 years: educational transitions from the Foundation stage to KS1. In: Dryden, L., Forbes, R., Mukherji, P. and Joshi, U., eds. Essential Early Years. London: Hodder and Stoughton, pp. 117-139.
Articles
Chawla-Duggan, R., Wikeley, F. and Konantambigi, R., 2012. Researcher-child relations in Indian educational settings. Ethnography and Education, 7 (3), pp. 345-362.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2011. Working with practitioners’ perspectives: supporting father involvement in family services in England. Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 31 (2), pp. 149-161.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2007. “Strong Foundations – Early Childhood Care and Education” - a review of the Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2007. Quality Matters:Communicating News across the EdQual Community, 2, p. 8.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2007. Breaking out, breaking through: accessing knowledge in a non-Western overseas educational setting: methodological issues for an outsider. Compare, 37 (2), pp. 185-2000.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2006. Exploring the role of father development workers in supporting early years learning. Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 26 (1), pp. 93-109.
Reports/Papers
Chawla-Duggan, R. and Milner, S., 2012. Celebrating Fatherhood : An evaluation of B&NES Fathers' Friday initiative 2012. Other. University of Bath.
Chawla-Duggan, R., Etsey, K. and Datta, V., 2010. Quality Early Childhood Care and Education helps provide the best start for young lives (Policy Brief). Vol. 9. Other. EdQual.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2007. Facilitating Father Development Work Practice in Early Years Learning. Other. Esmee Fairburn Report.
Barratt, A., Chawla-Duggan, R., Lowe, J., Nikel, J. and Ukpo, E., 2006. The concept of quality in education: a review of the 'international' literature on the concept of quality in education. Working Paper. EdQual RPC.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2004. Homeopathy Service Review. Other. Swindon: Sure Start Pinehurst and Penhill.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2004. The Knowledge, Use and Impact of Sure Start: A Comparison of Users and Non-Users: Eighteen Case Studies. Other. Swindon: Sure Start Pinehurst and Penhill.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2003. Process Review with Stakeholders: A Report for Sure Start Pinehurst and Penhill. Other. Swindon: Sure Start Pinehurst and Penhill.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2003. The Role of the Sure Start Health Visitor: A Report for Sure Start Pinehurst and Penhill. Other. Swindon: Sure Start Pinehurst and Penhill.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2003. Play Start Service Review: A Report for Sure Start Pinehurst and Penhill. Other. Swindon: Sure Start Pinehurst and Penhill.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 1996. Creative science teaching in Japanese schools? Other. Osaka-Kyoku University.
Chawla-Duggan, R. and Burgess, R. G., 1995. Interpreting and Implementing Science Curriula and Assessment in Primary Classrooms. Other. CEDAR.
Conference or Workshop Items
Chawla-Duggan, R. and Milner, S., 2013. Father involvement in young children's care and education : exploring boundaries and starting conversations. In: British Sociological Association Annual Conference, 2013-04-03 - 2013-04-05, London.
Chawla-Duggan, R. and Milner, S., 2013. Father's Friday : working with a local authority on a parenting initiative. In: Planning for Impact Workshop, University of Bath, 2013-03-14, Bath.
Chawla-Duggan, R. and Milner, S., 2013. New Approaches to Outreach and Parental Engagement. In: Daycare Trust Annual Conference, 2012-12-04, Westminster.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2013. Quality and pre-school pedagogic practice - reflections on the visual analysis of young children and the Integrated Child Development Service in Mumbai slums. Key note speaker. In: First International Conference on Early Childhood Development : Small Steps to a Bright Future, 2013-03-21 - 2013-03-22, New Delhi.
Chawla-Duggan, R., 2012. Father Involvement and Sure Start Children's Centres. In: International Conference : A Child's World - Working Together for a Better Future, 2012-06-27 - 2012-06-29, Aberystwyth.
Chawla-Duggan, R. and Milner, S., 2012. Father's Friday. In: Bath & N. E. Somerset Head Teachers' Conference, 2012-11-22 - 2012-11-23, Bath.
Chawla-Duggan, R., Datta, V. and Etsey, E., 2010. Realising quality early childhood care and education though a social justice perspective: the case of India and Ghana. In: British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE), 2010-09-10 - 2010-09-12, University of East Anglia.
Chawla-Duggan, R., Denley, P., Fertig, M. and Oduro, G., 2010. Action research in researching quality: rhetoric and reality. In: World Congress of Comparative Education Studies, 2010-06-14 - 2010-06-18, Istanbul.
Chawla-Duggan, R. and Wikeley, F., 2010. Ethnography and children: Exposing the borders informing children's social actions in Indian educational settings. In: World Congress of Comparative Education Studies, 2010-06-14 - 2010-06-18, Istanbul.
Wikeley, F., Konantambigi, R., Pui Wah, C. and Chawla-Duggan, R., 2010. Is play re-conceptualised when it crosses cultural boundaries? In: World Congress of Comparative Education Studies, 2010-06-14 - 2010-06-18, Istanbul.
Other
Chawla-Duggan, R. and Milner, S., 2012. Why Fathers Matter?
