डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्‍वविद्यालय दिल्ली
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi
Established by The Government of NCT of Delhi

• PhD (2009), Department of Education, Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi. Dissertation titled, ‘Civics Curriculum and the Idea of Citizen since Late Nineteenth Century’’.
• M.Ed. (1999), Department of Education. Dissertation titled, ‘Elementary School Civics after Independence: A Content Analysis of Textbooks’.
• B.Ed. (1995), M.A. Political Science (1994), B.A. (H) Political Science (1992).

• Before joining AUD, Manish was Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Sociology in Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai (May 2009 – April 2011). At TISS, he taught ‘Pedagogy of Social Studies’ and ‘Policy, Institutions and Practices’ in M.A. Education (Elementary), ‘Polity, Governance and Public Policy’ in M.A. (Social Work), ‘Civil Society and Development’ in M.A. (Development Studies) and M. Phil. Seminar Course ‘School differentiation and Quality’ courses.
• Before TISS, he worked as Research Coordinator with an NGO, NEG-FIRE, New Delhi (April 2008 - January 2009) and as Consultant, Pedagogy of Democracy with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi in its project ‘State of Democracy in South Asia’ (SDSA) under the Lokniti Programme, (September 2005- February 2006).
• He has a decade long experience as a school-teacher. He taught Social Science and Political Science to Secondary and Senior Secondary Classes and worked with colleagues teaching elementary classes at Mahavir Senior Model School, Delhi, (1995- 2005).
• Manish has also been a visiting faculty in History of Education (2011 and 2012) and Pedagogy of Social Studies (2008-09) in the M.A. Education (Elementary) programme of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.

Resource Person

• He has been a resource person in different workshops organized by TISS-AUD-APU-NUEPA, Digantar, Room to Read, Azim Premji Foundation and Eklavya. These workshops were in the domains of Education Policy, on the theme of Regulation in Education (2013); Gender and Education (2013); Policy and Education (2013); History of Education and Social Sciences (2012); Nature and Pedagogy of Social Science and Civics (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2009); Comparative Education, on the theme ‘Reimagining Comparative Education and its Challenge’.

Official Committees

• Textbook/Syllabus Development:

  • Member, Core Committee and Social Science Sub-Committee on Syllabus Reduction, Directorate of Education, Government of Delhi 2015-16.
  • Member, Syllabus Review Committee for Social Sciences set up by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), India, 2005.
  • Member, Political Science Textbook Development Committee for Class IX-XI set up by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), India, 2005-07.
  • Member, Civics Textbook Development Team, classes VI - VIII, State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Delhi 2003-04.

• Teacher Education:

  • Member, Core Group for drafting Pre Service TE curriculum for Tata Trust, 2017.
  • Member, Joint Review Mission (JRM) on Teacher Education for the State of Tamil Nadu (May 2014) and Tripura (June 2013), Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, New Delhi.
  • Member, Sub-Committee of National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) on Two Year B.Ed. Syllabus (2013-14).
  • Member, Sub-Committee of National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) on Revision of M.Ed. Norms and Standards (September-October 2013).
  • NCTE Nominee for workshop on revision of D.Ed. course, West Bengal Board of Primary Education (29-30 August 2013).
  • NCTE Nominee for UGC inspection of TMU, Moradabad (December 2013).
  • Member, Sub-Committee of National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) on model syllabi for Elementary level Teacher Education courses (D.Ed.) (2010) (designed 4 courses: Education, Society, Curriculum and Learners; Contemporary Indian Society; Diversity, Gender and Inclusive Education; and Social Science Education).

• Manish’s teaching and research interests lie at the intersections of history, politics, and sociology of education along with an emerging engagement with auto/biographical narratives. These interests find expression in the areas of Histories of education and school disciplines in colonial and post-colonial societies; Memories of School/ing and Teacher’s work and lives; Sociology of Education; Education Policies; Comparative Education; Gender and Education; Social Science Curriculum and Citizenship Education; Urban Inequality and Education; Politics of Textbooks; and Democratic and Critical Pedagogy.

• Canadian Studies Doctoral Fellowship by Shastri Indo- Canadian Institute (SICI), New Delhi/Calgary, which enabled him to be a doctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, University of British Columbia (September 2004-April 2005).
• Doctoral Fellowship by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi (2007 – 2008).
• Otto Bennemann Fellowship for Innovative Methodological Approaches in International Textbook Research at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI), Braunschweig (Germany), May-June 2015.
• Visiting Fellowship of the Transnational Research Group (TRG) Poverty and Education in India at the German Historical Institute London (GHIL), May-July 2016.
• Visiting Fellow, Centre for Education Studies, University of Warwick (UK), September 2016 - August 2017.
• Visiting Professor at the Department of General Pedagogy, University of Bayreuth, Germany, May – June 2018.
• Visiting Professor, Ludwigsburg University of Education under ERASMUS+ collaboration, May 2019.

Book:

• Razzack, A., Sarangapani. P., and Jain, M. (Eds.). (2023). Education, Teaching and Learning: Discourses, Cultures, and Conversations. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. ISBN: 9789354423253
• Dewan, H., Nag, S., Kumar, M. & Jain, M. (Eds.) (2020). Adhyapak, adhyapan aur adhyapak shiksha: Neetiyan, bahsen aur anubhav (Teachers, teaching and teacher education: Policies, debates and experiences. New Delhi: Vani Prakashan and Azim Premji University. ISBN: 978-93-89563-54-2.
• Jain, Manish, Mukhopadhyay, Rahul, Mehandale, Archana, Winch, Christopher and Sarangapani, Padma (eds.). 2018. School Education in India: Market, State and Quality. Abingdon/New York: Routledge.

Journal Papers

• Jain, M., & Garg, R. (2023). Nagrikta aur shiksha: Avdhaarnatmak aur aitihasik sambandh (Citizenship and education: Conceptual and historical relationship). Pariprekshya: Shaikshik yojna aur prashasan ka samajik-aarthik sandarbh, 30(1), 5-28.
• Gulati, N. & Jain, M. (2022). The Idea of School Teacher in the National Education Policy 2020. Journal of Indian Education 48(3), 7-20. New Delhi: NCERT. https://ncert.nic.in/pdf/publication/journalsandperiodicals/journalofindianeducation/JIE_November2022.pdf
• Kadiwal, L., Jain, M., Nayanpally, S., Andrabi, R., Sharma, P., Khandelwal, C. and Arif, W. (2022). Contesting Authoritarianism, Redefining Democracy: Youth and Citizenship in Contemporary India. Citizenship Teaching & Learning, Special Issue: Reconceptualizing and Reimagining Citizenship Education in Light of Youth Led Global Movements, 17 (3), 341-362. https://doi.org/10.1386/ctl_00097_1
• Gulati, N., & Jain, M. (2022). Pre-Service Teacher Education: An overview of education policy in India. Towards Excellence, 14 (1), 84-91. https://hrdc.gujaratuniversity.ac.in/Publication/article?id=4876
• Jain, M. (2021/2022). Bharat main pathyacharya adhyayan: Aupniveshik jaden aur iskee uttar- aupniveshik yatra. Pariprekshya: Shaikshik yojna aur prashasan ka samajik-aarthik sandarbh, 28(3)/29(1), 55-98. https://www.niepa.ac.in/Download/Publications/Paripekshya/2023/Paripekshya%20December%202021%20&%20April%202022%20Issue%20Web%20File%2023.3.23.pdf
• Gulati, N. & Jain, M. (2021). Local in education policy discourse. Voices of Teachers and Teacher Educators, 10 (2), 7-19.https://ncert.nic.in/pdf/publication/journalsandperiodicals/vtte/Dec_Issue-2021.pdf
• Jain, M. (2019). Social Science and language in schools: Some preliminary notes. Language and Language Teaching (Special Issue on Literacy),8(2),49-54.https://llt.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/llt16/LLT_16_article9.pdf
• Jain, M. (2013). Challenges for revitalizing teacher education in India: JRMs and beyond. Voice of Teachers and Teacher Educators, 2(2), 12-17.
• Jain, M. and Saxena, S. 2010. Politics of low-cost schooling and low teacher salary. Economic and Political Weekly, 45 (18), 79-80.
• Jain, M. (2005). Social Studies and Civics: Past and present in the curriculum. Economic and Political Weekly, 40 (19), 1939-1942.
• Jain, M. (2004). Civics, citizens and human rights: Civics discourse in India. Contemporary Education Dialogue, 1 (2), 165-198. https://doi.org/10.1177/0973184904001002

Book Chapters

• Gulati, N. & Jain, M. (2024). Education as a discipline in India: Foundations and histories. In: Remesh, Babu P. and Ratheesh, RPK (Eds.) Practicing Interdisciplinarity: Convergences and Contestations. London, New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781032843094
• Sarangapani. P., Jain, M., and Razzack, A. (2023). An Introduction to the Discipline of Education in India and its Histories. In: Razzack, A., Sarangapani. P., and Jain, M. (Eds.). Education, Teaching and Learning: Discourses, Cultures, and Conversations (pp. 1-37). Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. ISBN: 9789354423253
• Jain, M. (2023). Nationalist Imaginations in the Colonial World: Civics and Citizen in India c 1920s -1940s. In: Razzack, A., Sarangapani. P., and Jain, M. (Eds.). Education, Teaching and Learning: Discourses, Cultures, and Conversations (pp. 41-64).  Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. ISBN: 9789354423253
• Gulati, N., Jain, M., & Chauhan, C. (2021). Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: A policy overview. In: Puri, Seema (Ed.), Children in India: Opportunities and challenges. New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 81-114. ISBN: 978-1-68507-067-0https://doi.org/10.52305/RGWU1645
• Kadiwal, L. & Jain, M. (2020). Civics and Citizenship Education in India and Pakistan. In: Sarangapani, P.M. & Pappu, R. (Eds.), Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia. Springer Singapore, Singapore. ISBN: 978-981-15-0031-2, Published: 29 August 2021, eBook ISBN 978-981-15-0032-9, Published: 28 August 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3309-5_44-1
• Sayed, Y., Vidya, KS. & Jain, M. (2020). Framing Teachers in National Education Policy and in the Popular Media: Discourses on teachers and their work in South Asia. In: Sarangapani, P.M., Pappu, R. (Eds.), Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia. Singapore: Springer Singapore. ISBN: 978-981-15-0031-2, Published: 29 August 2021, eBook ISBN 978-981-15-0032-9, Published: 28 August 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3309-5_28-1
• Jain, M., Dewan, H., Nag, S. & Kumar, M. (2020). Prastaavna (Introduction). In Dewan, H., Nag, S., Kumar, M. & Jain, M. (Eds.). Adhyapak, adhyapan aur adhyapak shiksha: Neetiyan, bahsen aur anubhav (Teachers, teaching and teacher education: Policies, debates and experiences (pp: 9-30). New Delhi: Vani Prakashan and Azim Premji University. ISBN: 978-93-89563-54-2.
• Jain, M. (2018). Public, private and education in India: A historical overview. In Jain, M., Mehandale, A., Mukhopadhyay, R., Sarangapani, P. & Winch, C. (Eds.) School education in India: Market, state and quality (pp. 31-66). Abingdon/New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781351025669.
• Sarangapani, P., Mukhopadhyay, R., Parul & Jain, M. (2018). Recovering the practice and profession of teaching. In Jain, M., Mehandale, A., Mukhopadhyay, R., Sarangapani, P. & Winch, C. (Eds.) School education in India: Market, state and quality (pp. 123-138). Abingdon/New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781351025669.
• Jain, M. (2018). Schools, market and citizenship in Delhi. In Jain, M., Mehandale, A., Mukhopadhyay, R., Sarangapani, P. & Winch, C. (Eds.). School education in India: Market, state and quality (pp. 191-226). Abingdon/New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781351025669.
• Jain, M. (2017). Upniveshwad, aupniveshik shiksha aur Macaulay (Colonialism, Colonial Education and Macaulay). In Agnihotri, R., Dewan, H., Chaturvedi, A., Sudhir, V., & Dwivedi, R. (Eds.). Macaulay, Elphinstone aur Bhartiya Shiksha (pp. 235-249). New Delhi: Vani Prakashan. ISBN: 978-93-5229-721-4 (HB) 978-93-5229-722-1 (PB).
• Jain, M. (2015). Curriculum Studies in India: Colonial Roots and Postcolonial Trajectories. In Pinar, W. F. (ed.) Curriculum Studies in India: Intellectual histories, present circumstances (pp. 111 – 139). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-50209-7/978-1-137-47715-6. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137477156
• Nawani, D. & Jain, M. (2011). Learners and learning in India: History, perspectives and contexts.  In Zhao, Y., Lei, J., Li, G., He, M. F., Okano, K., Megahed, M., Gamage, D., Ramanathan, H. (Ed.) Handbook of Asian Education: A Cultural Perspective (pp. 503-528). New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780805864441

Other Articles:

• Jain, M. (2019). America kee shiksha vyavastha main school aur adhyapan: Heather Bigley ka sakshaatkaar (School and teachers in American education system: Interview of Heather Bigley). Pathshala: Bheetar aur Bahar, 2(3), 115-123.
• Jain, M. (2018). History textbooks and the idea of India. In The Idea of India: Conference Proceedings of The International Conference on The Idea of India 2017 (pp. 78-84). Calcutta: The Seagull Foundation for the Arts.
• Jain, M. (2014). Upniveshwad, aupniveshik shiksha aur Macaulay (Colonialism, Colonial Education and Macaulay). Mool Prashn, January-March, 32-42.
• Jain, M. (2013). ‘Shiksha ka itihas (History of Education)’, Shiksha Vimarsh, 15(4). ISSN: 22310509
• Jain, M., George, A. M. & Pushkar, P. (2012). Kaisee hon pathyapustaken: Sansad ke vichar aur chhatron ki apekshayen (What kind of textbooks: Ideas of parliament and expectations of students). Shiksha Vimarsh, 14(4-5), 119-135. ISSN: 22310509
• Jain, M. (2012). Aupniveshik aur swatantra bharat main pathyapustaken: Vivad, sarokar aur sabak (Textbooks in colonial and independent India: Controversies, concerns and lessons). Shiksha Vimarsh, 14: 4-5, 183-191. ISSN: 22310509
• Jain, M. 2011. ‘Kaksha mein uthe sawal (Questions raised in the Class). Samayilk Varta, 34 (5-6), 42-43.
• Jain, M. (2008). Aupniveshik Bharat mein nagrik shastra aur nagrikta (Civics and citizenship in colonial India). Shiksha Vimarsh, 10 (5), 19-27. ISSN: 22310509 https://doi.org/10.1177/097318490400100203

Book Reviews

• Jain, M. (2016). [Review of the book Sprout: A Social Geography of Rajasthan, by Y. Sunny]. Shiksha Vimarsh, 18(2) March-April, 33-35. ISSN: 2231-0509.
• Jain, M. (2015). [Review of the book New Perspectives in the History of Indian Education, by P. V. Rao, Ed.]. Contemporary Education Dialogue, 12(1), 110 - 115. ISSN: 09731849.
• Jain, M. (2012). Kaksha main loktantra aur parivartan ka aakhyan (Narrative of democracy and change in the classroom) [Review of the book Meri gramin shala kee diary (Country School Diary), by J. W. Gordon]. Shiksha Vimarsh, 14(3), 30-34. ISSN: 2231-0509.
• Jain, M. (2012). Voices and silences of/in educational policy and research [Review of the book Who goes to school? Exploring exclusion in Indian education, by R. Govinda, Ed.]. The Book Review, 36(8), 20-21.
• Jain, M. (2009). [Review of the book Educating Muslim girls: A comparison of five Indian cities, by Z. Hasan & R. Menon]. Social Change, 39(4). 621-622. ISSN: 00490857.
• Jain, M. (2008). [Review of the book Shiksha: The challenge of Indian education, by A. Kaushik]. Seminar, 592, 60-61.

Popular Press

• Jain, M. & Gulati, N. (2021). The public and the private school in the pandemic. Telegraph India. 13 July.
• Jain, M. (2004). Nagrik(ta) ka shikshashastra. Hindustan. 29 June.

Paper Presentations

• Jain, M. (2023, September 27). NEP 2020: Teacher Education Program in the School Context. [Invited lecture]. Department of Elementary Education, Miranda House, University of Delhi. Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2023, August 24). Reflections from the Findings: Understanding Issues of Gender and Schooling in the Contemporary Context [Panel Discussion]. Learning from Gender Transformative Programmes: Assessing UNICEF’s Interventions in schools in Osmanabad, Maharashtra. International Symposium on Teacher Professional Development in the Global South, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Mumbai, India.
• Jain, M. (2023, July 31). Teacher Professional Development: Social Justice and Inclusion [Panel Discussion]. International Symposium on Teacher Professional Development in the Global South, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Mumbai, India.
• Jain, M. (2023, July 13). Bazar aur shiksha (Market and education) [Invited lecture]. Rashtriya shiksha neeti aur vi-aupniveshikaran kee sambhavnaayen, Deshik Abhilekh Anusandhan Kendra (CRA-IILKS), Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi. Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2023, June 15). Binaries and beyond: Decolonisation, social justice and teacher education in a postcolonial context [Invited lecture]. Online lecture series on decolonisation and education, Ludwigsburg University of Education. Germany.
• Jain, M. (2023, April 21-23). The postcolonial citizen of NEP 2020 [Invited lecture].  Conference on "Re-imagining the Contemporary in Indian Education" organized by IIM-Calcutta, the University of Glasgow and the Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies. Kolkata, India.
• Jain, M. (2023, March 16). Of alternatives and contestations: Citizenship and civics in Delhi’s SCERT textbooks c. 2003 [Invited lecture]. Conversations, TISS-Azim Premji School of Education (TISS-APSoE). Hyderabad, India.
• Jain, M. (2023, February 17). NEP 2020, Curriculum reform, interdisciplinarity and the field: Challenges and opportunities. [Invited lecture]. Online Workshop for Principals Educational Administrators UGC HRDC- University of Calicut.
• Jain, M. (2023, February 3). Representing Constitution of India in NCERT’s political science textbooks: Resources, ideas and assessment [Invited lecture]. Workshop on Development of Political Science Curriculum for Schools, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2023, January 30). Gender, inequality, citizenship and space in civics textbooks: Revisiting Delhi’s SCERT textbooks 2003 [Invited lecture]. Workshop on Development of Political Science Curriculum for Schools, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2023, January 28). The idea of local and community in Indian Education Policy Discourse [Invited lecture]. Refresher Course, Department of Education, in collaboration with UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Chandigarh, India.
• Jain, M. (2023, January 28). Postcolonialism and Indigeneity in Contemporary Indian Education Policy Discourse [Invited lecture]. Refresher Course, Department of Education, in collaboration with UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Chandigarh, India.
• Jain, M. (2022, December 3-4). Disciplining education in India: Trajectories, institutions and foundations [Invited panel presentation]. Carving fields of knowledge: Disciplines, institutions and practices in colonial and postcolonial India [Symposium]. Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies (MWF). New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2022, November 23). Teaching and Teacher Education for Equity and Quality in South Asia [Invited seminar presentation]. Invited presentation, School of Education and Social Work (EWS), University of Sussex. Sussex, UK.
• Jain, M. (2022, September 19-21). Nation, state and citizen: Curriculum and civics textbooks at the turn of twentieth-century India [Invited panel presentation]. Dexterities and edifices of belonging: Perspectives on modern South Asia [Opening Symposium]. Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies (MWF). New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2022, August 25-26). The role of private players in teacher education policy and provision [Invited panel presentation]. Teacher preparation for equity and inclusion: Possibilities and prospects [Project-end International Symposium]. Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
• Jain, M. (2022, August 20). [Discussion on the keynote address The State of school education in India, by M. Dubey]. [Invited discussant]. Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2022, May 26). Practicing digitalisation in higher education: Experiences, voices, and lessons [Invited panel presentation]. Digitalisation in quality education, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Regional Office. New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2022, March 14). Colonialism, nation, and citizenship: Contestations and civics textbooks [Invited lecture]. Refresher Course, UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Panjab University. Chandigarh, India.
• Jain, M. (2021, November 13). [Invited Speaker]. Online workshop on gender, education and inequality: Pandemic and the present times, India Branch Office of the Max Weber Stiftung, University of Glasgow, School of Education; Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
• Jain, M. (2021, October 4). Civics and the making of the colonial citizen [Invited lecture]. History of Education course of the MAEE programme, TISS Mumbai, India.
• Jain, M. (2021, September). Pandemic and the repercussions on education sector [Invited speaker]. VIII Creative Theory Colloquium 2021 on COVID-19 pandemic: Grassroots experiences, democratic responses. Online.
• Jain, M. (2021, June 24). [Invited speaker]. Roundtable discussion on ‘New Directions in Gender, Education and Poverty’, India Branch Office of the Max Weber Stiftung. Online.
• Jain, M. (2021, January 14). [Discussion on the talk Using auto/biographies in social research: (Re)building connections with self and structures, by R. Sen]. [Discussant]. Centre for Research Methods, Ambedkar University Delhi, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2020, September 18). Civics and the making of the colonial citizen [Online Invited lecture]. History of Education course of the MAEE programme, TISS Mumbai, India.
• Jain, M. (2020, September 10). Curriculum and pedagogy in schools [Online Panel Discussion]. Tata Trusts Panel Discussion on NEP 2020.
• Jain, M. (2020, September 3). Higher education and institutional autonomy in the National Education Policy 2020 [Webinar]. Government Degree College, Manikpur, India.
• Jain, M. (2020, August 12). New Education Policy 2020: It's implications for equality, justice and liberty [Webinar]. Social Science Research Community India, Guwahati, India.
• Jain, M. (2020, August 10]. National Education Policy 2020: Some critical aspects of school education [Webinar]. Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2020, August 7). Policy as politics, Policy as text [Webinar] AUD Faculty Association, Ambedkar University Delhi, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2020, July 24). Teacher education, COVID-19, digital divide and politics [Panel Discussion]. The digital divide among teachers and students [Teaching and Learning Consortium (TALC)]. Centre for Education Innovation and Action Research (CEIAR), TISS Mumbai. India.
• Jain, M. (2020, July 9). Imagery of the white man? ‘Citizen’, ‘Ward’, and the state in Bourinot’s civics [Paper presentation]. International Online Conference, International Centre for Historical Research in Education (ICHRE), University College London.
• Jain, M. (2020, June 3). Citizen(ship) as subject: The young, education and the state since 1890s [Webinar]. Youth and Citizenship in India, School of Education Studies AUD; Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective (CCYSC).
• Jain, M. (2020, January 25). Importance of citizenship education [Keynote address]. We, The People Abhiyan event, Citizens and The Constitution. Gurugram, India.
• Jain, M. (2020, January 9-11). Subject(ing) the citizen in colonial and postcolonial India [Expert lecture]. International Workshop on Educational Transformations and Societal Change in Liberalizing India, School of Arts and Sciences (SAS), Ahmedabad University. India.
• Jain, M. (2019, December 9-11). Teachers in policy discourse in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan [Conference Panel]. Annual International Conference of the Comparative Education Society of India (CESI), JNU, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2019, November 21-22). Nuances of writing and publishing in quality journals [National seminar cum Workshop]. Academic Writings: Addressing the Contemporary Challenges, Panjab University. Chandigarh, India.
• Jain, M. (2019, October 14). Authentic, indigenous and global: Politics of curriculum and citizenship education at the turn of twentieth century India [Seminar Presentation]. School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2019, June 25-29). Global, indigenous and national: Politics of citizenship education in globalized India [Expert lecture]. 6th Georg Arnhold International Summer School on Global Citizenship Education and Citizenship Education in a Changing World: Normative and Pedagogical Challenges, Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig, Germany.
• Jain, M. (2019, May 17). Introduction to the education system in India [Lecture]. Ludwigsburg University of Education, Germany.
• Jain, M. (2019, May 16). Gender separation in Indian education system [Lecture]. Ludwigsburg University of Education, Germany.
• Jain, M. (2019, May 15). Surveying quality of education: Conceptual and methodological issues [Lecture]. Ludwigsburg University of Education, Germany.
• Jain, M. (2019, April 13). Whither teacher agency and voice in the times of reform [Invited lecture]. Edu-Adda, NCERT, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2018, December 6-7). History, politics and curriculum reform in a postcolonial democracy: A long-term view [Invited lecture]. Colloquium on Learning without Burden: 25 years of Yashpal Committee Report, CEIAR, TISS Mumbai and APSoE, Hyderabad.
• Jain, M. (2018, November 16). Quality education [Invited lecture]. Lucknow Youth Convention 2018, Organised by terre des homes, Lucknow, India.
• Jain, M. (2018, May 30). Teacher education in the context of diversity: Experiences from India [Invited lecture]. Seminar series on Diversity and Heterogeneity in School and University, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
• Jain, M. (2018, May 23). Politics of an idea: Corporate social responsibility and educating the poor in India [Paper presentation]. Department of General Pedagogy, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
• Jain, M. (2018, February 17). [Discussion on the book The Beautiful Tree, by Dharampal]. [Discussant]. Edu-Adda, AUD, India.
• Jain, M. (2017, December 9]. Public, private, quality and pedagogy [Paper presentation] Seminar on Public Policy Aspects of Elementary Education, National Institute of Public Finance & Policy, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2017, March 16). Education, girl child and corporate social responsibility [Workshop]. Gender and Human Rights in India, Ambedkar University Delhi and University of Washington-Bothell, AUD, India.
• Jain, M. (2017, March 2-3). Indigenous education in nineteenth century India and the politics of indigeneity and postcoloniality [Paper presentation]. Policy Seminar on Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Youth Empowerment, National University of Educational Planning and Research (NUEPA), New Delhi, India.
• Jain, Manish. (2017, February 4). Interfacing and teaching social science and cinema in schools [Workshop]. Film as a Pedagogical Tool for Social Science Teaching, CIE, University of Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2016, November 19-21). Nationalist imaginations in the colonial world: Civics and citizen in India since first world war [Paper presentation]. Annual International Conference of the Comparative Education Society of India (CESI), Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India.
• Jain, M. (2016, October 24). Reading caste in colonial education: Questions, sources and interpretations [Invited lecture]. Workshop on Research Methods in Education, National University of Educational Planning and Research (NUEPA), New Delhi, India.
• Chughtai, M., & Jain, M. (2016, September 5-7). India and Pakistan: Contested histories, historiography and pedagogy [Paper presentation]. History Educators International Research Network (HEIRNET) 13th International Conference, Faculty of Education, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
• Jain, M. (2016, July 7). Postcolonial predicament: Teaching history of education in modern India [Paper presentation]. Teaching the History of Education Roundtable, International Centre for Historical Research in Education (ICHRE) Summer Conference, Institute of Education, University College London.
• Jain, M. (2016, July 6). Authentic and global citizen: The politics of curriculum in globalized India [Paper presentation]. Faculty of Education, University of Sussex.
• Jain, M. (2016, July 5). Public, private and education in India: A historical overview [Paper presentation]. Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.
• Jain, M. (2016, July 4). Character and citizenship education in late colonial India: An analysis of civics textbooks c. 1920 - c. 1940 [Paper presentation]. History in Education Special Interest Group at the University College London (UCL) Institute of Education.
• Jain, M. (2016, June 28). Margins of colonial modernity: Rural citizens, poverty and civic(s) education [Paper presentation]. German Historical Institute London (GHIL).
• Jain, M. (2016, June 22). Educating modern India: The curious categories of public and private [Paper presentation]. South Asia Day at Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick.
• Jain, M. (2016, March 30). Historical perspective of higher education in India [Invited presentation]. National Workshop for University Officers on University Governance, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2016, March 27). Educating the girl child: A feminist perspective on the Right to Education and gender equality [Invited lecture]. Regional Institute of Education, Bhopal, India.
• Jain, M. (2016, March 18). Gendered spaces and texts [Invited lecture]. Student-faculty delegation from University of Washington-Bothell, AUD, India.
• Jain, M. (2015, August 10). Reading colonialism, citizenship and textbooks [Invited lecture] Workshop on Qualitative Research Methods in Education (27 July – 14 August), National University of Educational Planning and Research (NUEPA), New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2015, August 11]. Comparing and reading other society through textbooks [Invited lecture] Workshop on Qualitative Research Methods in Education (27 July – 14 August), National University of Educational Planning and Research (NUEPA), New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2015, June 17). The new subject(s): Civics and the ‘Citizen’ in colonial India [Paper presentation]. Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI), Braunschweig, Germany.
• Jain, M. (2015, May 27). Character, citizenship and civics in late colonial India (1918-1947) [Paper presentation]. Transnational Research Group (TRG), Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Gottingen, Germany.
• Jain, M. (2015, April 7-8). How far should educational process be directed and supported by the government? [Invited Presentation] National Seminar on Transforming Pedagogy in India, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India.
• Jain, M. (2015, March 18-20). Schools, qualities and citizenship in Delhi [Paper presentation]. Conference on Education in Delhi: Marginalisation, Diversity and Schools, Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD), India
• Jain, M. (2015, February 19]. Contesting perspectives on citizenship and education [Invited lecture]. Mata Sundari College, University of Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2014, November 27-29). History of education and the question of inequality [Discussant]. International conference on ‘Modern Transformations and the Challenges of Inequalities in Education in India’, organized by Department of History, University of Delhi, Ramjas College, University of Delhi; NMRC, Jawahar Lal Nehru University. University of Delhi, India.
• Jain, M.  (2014, November 16-18). Conflict, violence and education in Kandhamal [Paper presentation]. Annual international conference of the Comparative Education Society of India (CESI), University of Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2014, September 30). Reading education policies with focus on Kothari Commission [Invited Extension Lecture]. Department of Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2014, September 29). Dalit autobiography and education: Sociological perspective of Dalit literature [Invited Lecture]. National Seminar on Interrelationship of Ambedkarism and Indian Dalit Literature. Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2014, July 24). Curriculum in India [Invited lecture]. IN-STEP programme for Teacher Educators going to Arizona University. MHRD, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2014, June 26). Education policies [Invited lecture]. Summer Teacher Fellowship Programme 2014, RRCE, University of Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2014, June 19). History of teachers in colonial and postcolonial India [Invited lecture]. Summer Teacher Fellowship Programme 2014, RRCE, University of Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2014, May 9-10). Educating poor girl child: A feminist perspective on education and gender equality [Invited lecture]. Symposium on ‘Education – Equality and Justice’. Azim Premji Foundation, Puducherry and Chennai, India.
• Jain, M. (2014, April 14). Caste and educational inequality in colonial India [Invited lecture]. Azim Premji University, Bangalore (Bengaluru), India.
• Jain, M. (2013, December 16-21). State, civil society and regulation in education: Historical inquiries [Paper presentation]. Collaborative Workshop on Education Policy, on the theme of Regulation in Education, Organised by TISS, APU, AUD, and NUEPA, TISS-Hyderabad, India.
• Jain, M. (2013, November 29]. Locating voices and school in contemporary Delhi [Invited Presentation]. Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2013, April 3). Critical thinking: Its importance and relevance in teaching of history [Invited lecture]. Department of Elementary Education, Institute of Home Economics, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2013, March 14). Public and private in education in India: A historical overview [Invited lecture]. NUEPA, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2013, January 17). State and non-state actors in education in India: A historical overview [Paper presentation]. Seminar Course on Quality and Education, Organised by TISS-Hyderabad, India; Kings College, London.
• Jain, M. (2012, October 10-12). Character, citizenship and civics in late colonial India [Paper presentation]. Annual international conference of the Comparative Education Society of India (CESI), University of Jammu, India.
• Jain, M. (2012, October 9). Studying/researching colonial education and curriculum in a comparative frame [Lecture]. CESI pre-conference Workshop on Comparative Education, on the theme ‘Reimagining Comparative Education and its Challenge’. Jammu University, India.
• Jain, M. (2012, September 3). Critical pedagogy and social inclusion: Questions from recent controversy over political science textbooks [Invited lecture]. 8th 3-week Refresher Course in Human Rights & Social Inclusion (Interdisciplinary). Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2012, June 5). Issues emerging from recent controversy in political science textbooks:  pedagogic and social implications [Panel Discussion], Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
• Jain, M. (2012, January 21). Emerging trends in education in contemporary India: A human rights perspective [Invited lecture]. UGC sponsored workshop on Human Rights and Ethics Education, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2011, November 16-18). Introducing a textbook: Policies and contestations in nineteenth century colonial India [Paper presentation]. Annual international conference of the Comparative Education Society of India (CESI), University of Hyderabad, India.
• Jain, M. (2010, December 17-18). Public, private and education: A historical overview [Paper presentation]. Workshop on Comparative Inquiry into School Scenario, TISS, Mumbai, India.
• Jain, M. (2010, November 15-17). Colonial knowledge, colonial citizen: Civics in colonial India [Paper presentation]. Annual international conference of the Comparative Education Society of India (CESI), JNU, India.
• Jain, M. (2009, December 17-18). Thinking about teachers and teaching in contemporary times: Some preliminary notes [Paper presentation]. Workshop on Comparative Inquiry into School Scenario, TISS, Mumbai, India.
• Jain, M. (2009, October 5-8). Beyond deskilled wage labourer: Teachers as transformative intellectuals [Paper presentation]. Second Peoples Education Congress, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR, Mumbai, India.
• Jain, M. (2008, October 24). Frames of citizenship: Civics in colonial and independent India [Invited lecture]. Interdisciplinary seminar jointly organised by Department of Sociology and Political Science and Public Administration, University of Pune, India.
• Jain, M. (2008, October 3-5). Libraries for the marginalized: Experiences and challenges [Paper presentation on behalf of NEG-FIRE]. International conference on School Libraries, Udaipur, India.
• Jain, M. (2008, March 7). Inflections of gender: Civics and citizenship in colonial India [Paper presentation]. Research student’s seminar organised by the Centre for Women’s Development and Studies, University of Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (2006, April 11-14). The politics of inclusion and exclusion: Civics textbooks and citizenship in India [Selected for Paper presentation]. International Conference on ‘The Textbook Worldwide- Past, Present, Future’, at the Grande Bibliotheque and the Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Montreal, Canada. [Could not go in absence of funding].
• Jain, M. (2005, March 18). Imagery of the white man?: ‘Citizen’, ‘Ward’, and the state in Bourinot’s civics [Paper presentation]. Conference in the Honour of Prof. Jean Barman, Green College, University of British Columbia, Canada.
• Jain, M. (2003, February 17-22). Making citizens of/and the nation through the curriculum [Paper presentation]. 8th Annual Cultural Studies Workshop jointly organised by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), Roskilde University of Denmark, Centre for Basic Research, Kampala, Uganda and SEPHIS of International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands, Goa, India.
• Jain, M. (2002, January 24-25). Civics, citizen and human rights: A critical introduction to the educational discourse in India [Paper presentation]. Symposium on ‘Schooling and Citizenship’, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India.
• Jain, M. (2001, March). Civics, citizen and human rights [Paper presentation]. National Workshop on Human Rights, Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi, India.
• Jain, M. (1999, November 14-18). Evolution of civics and the citizen in India [Paper presentation]. South Asian Conference on Education, Department of Education, University of Delhi, India.