Dr. Mousumi Mukherjee

Dr. Mousumi Mukherjee is Associate Professor & Deputy Director leading the Centre for Comparative and Global Education under the aegis of the International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building, O.P. Jindal Global University.

She is a distinguished Fulbright alumna with 20+ years of experience in the higher education sector of India, USA, and Australia. She is the Vice-President of Research and Partnerships Development of the STAR Scholars Network, an Executive Committee Member of the Indian Ocean Comparative Education Society (IOCES) and a Research Standing Committee Member of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES).

She worked as a consultant for the World Bank (New Delhi), UNESCO-IIEP (Paris), Higher Education Strategy Associates (Toronto) and the Australia-India Institute (Melbourne). As an external resource person, she co-authored the 2019 UNESCO-APCIEU award-winning Handbook- “Global Citizenship Education for upper-primary School Teachers” published by NCERT, India.

She is a Springer Book Series editor. She also serves as Associate Editor, Guest Editor, Editorial Board Member & Peer-Reviewer of international academic Journals. She has authored 30+ internationally peer-reviewed publications by reputed publishers, such as Routledge, Brill-Sense, Sage, Springer, and Oxford University Press.

Her research interest and expertise are in Education Policy and Leadership, Comparative and International Education, Decolonial Pedagogies, Participatory Research Methodologies and Southern Theory.

Research and Publication Ethics– DS-C-005- I teach this compulsory course fully online every semester for the doctoral programme at O.P. Jindal Global University

Globalization of Education– MA (DLB) 0388- I teach this elective Masters course every Fall to students across different schools of O.P. Jindal Global University as part of the University’s interdisciplinary curriculum.

Global Citizenship and International Understanding– MA (DLB) 0446- I teach this elective course Masters course during Fall/Spring semester across different schools of O.P. Jindal Global University as part of the University’s interdisciplinary curriculum

International Education, Soft Power and Public Diplomacy– MA (DLB) 0624- I teach this elective course Masters course during Spring semester across different schools of O.P. Jindal Global University as part of the University’s interdisciplinary curriculum

MA Thesis supervision: 1) “Information Communication Technology and Inclusive Education”- Anmol Jain (completed)

2) “History Education as a barrier in improving relations between China and Japan”- Charvee Puri (completed)

3) Pedagogy of Autonomy and Control in Social and Emotional Learning: Content Analysis of the Happiness Curriculum- Nistha Jain (Completed)

PhD Thesis Supervision: 1) Strengths-based Portraiture of Three Tibetan School Leaders: Implications for Leadership Training- Tenzin Dolma (Ongoing)

2) Higher educational attainment and workforce participation in academia: Narratives of women academics from Delhi- Gauri Khanna (ongoing)

3) English Literature curriculum reform within Indian higher Education: Decolonial Perspectives- Sayani Chatterjee (ongoing)

4) Doctoral Supervision within the Indian context: Challenges and Opportunities- Aparna Chakravarty (ongoing)

5) Inclusion of students from LGBTQ background within Indian Higher Education- Gauri Sharma (ongoing)

6) Student Mental Health and Wellbeing in Indian Higher Education- Sindhura Vamini Darapureddi (ongoing)

PhD Thesis Co-Supervision: 1) The challenges and opportunities of online assessment and evaluation of student learning- Vikas Manoria (ongoing)

2) Short-term Study Abroad Programme (STSAP): Towards evolving a framework on developing cross- cultural competence- Bhuvaneswari, M. (ongoing)

1. Chakravorty, A., Mukherjee, M. and Pandey, K.K. (2024), “A Needs Assessment of Doctoral Candidates”, Rolph, C. (Ed.) Supervising Doctoral Candidates (Surviving and Thriving in Academia), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 29-42. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83797-048-320241003
2. Wimpenny, K., Jacobs, L…Mukherjee, M. et.al. ( 14 March, 2024). Connectedness and Communal Thinking in a Virtual Borderland: Flourishing against the normative. In Ulmer, J.B., Hughes, C., Pérez, M.S., & Taylor, C.A. (Eds.). The Routledge International Handbook of Transdisciplinary Feminist Research and Methodological Praxis (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003303558
3. Mukherjee, M. (2023). Review of “Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions, written by Liz Jackson”. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 20(5-6), 556-560. https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-20050005
4. Mukherjee, M. (2023). Epilogue in Roy Y. Chan, Xi Lin & Krishna Bista (Eds.). Rethinking Hybrid and Remote Work in Higher Education: Global Perspectives, Policies and Practices after COVID-19. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan
5. Mukherjee, M., Mali, A., Dolma, T. (2023). “Education for all and MDGs: global education policy translation in India”, International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition), Elsevier, Pages 526-538, ISBN 9780128186299, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.01024-1
6. Mukherjee, M. (14 October 2022). Decolonising education: Critical reflections from India. Aula de Encuentro, volume extraordinario (1), Reflexiones pp. 213-235 https://doi.org/10.1756/ae.vextra1.7345
7. Mukherjee, M. (14 September 2022). Teaching in the Brave New World! In Peter Jandrić, et al. Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—the New Normal. Postdigital Science and Education. Springer.
8. Mukherjee, M. (May 2022). “Creative Resistance”: Establishing a World-minded Indian University in colonial British India. In Assié-Lumumba, Bedi, Cross and Ekanayake (Eds.) Comparative Education for Global Citizenship, Peace and Harmony through Ubuntu. Brill-Sense Publishers
9. Rajkumar, C., Mukherjee, M. Belousova, T., Nair, N. (Ed.) (2022). Global Higher Education during and beyond COVID-19: Perspectives and Challenges. Singapore: Springer Nature
10. Mukherjee, M, Karjigi, R. (2022). Research and University Social Responsibility: During and Beyond COVID-19, in C. Rajkumar et. al. (Ed.) Global Higher Education during and beyond COVID-19: Perspectives and Challenges. Singapore: Springer Nature
11. Maun, D., Belousova, T., Mukherjee, M. (2022). Students’ Experiences with Online Teaching and Learning: Perspectives from India, in C. Rajkumar et. al. (Ed.) Global Higher Education during and beyond COVID-19: Perspectives and Challenges. Singapore: Springer Nature
12. Mukherjee, M., Maun, D., Pani, A., Nair, N. et.al. (2022). SERU-INDIA COVID-19 Survey: Student experiences in India during the pandemic. Sonipat: International Institute for Higher Education Research & Capacity Building (IIHEd).
13. Mukherjee, M., Belousova, T., Maun, D. (August 2021). Students’ Experiences with Distance Learning under COVID-19: Critical Perspectives from an Indian University. In Roy Y. Chan, Ryan M. Allen & Krishna Bista [Eds.]. Online Teaching & Learning in Higher Education during COVID-19: International Perspectives & Experiences. New York & London: Routledge
14. Mukherjee, M. & Agarwal, S. (July, 202I). Decolonizing Lifelong Education: Learning from J. Krishnamurti, Tiffany Prete & Elizabeth A Lange [Eds.] Special Issue: – Indigenous Voices and Decolonizing Lifelong Education. International Journal of Lifelong Education, Taylor & Francis
15. Mukherjee, M & Jain, S. (July 2021). Marginalised Students and their contexts: A case from India, in Kerry J. Kennedy [Ed.]. Social Studies Education in South and South Asian Contexts. New York & London: Routledge
16. Mukherjee, M. & Singh, A. (July 2021). Postcolonial National Identity formation through Social Studies: the case of India, in Kerry J. Kennedy [Ed.]. Social Studies Education in South and South Asian Contexts. New York & London: Routledge
17. Mukherjee, M. (May 26, 2021). Tagore’s perspective on decolonizing education. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1559
18. Mukherjee. M. (Aug 2020). Awakening Bodhisattva while Teaching in a World of Corona, Teaching in the Age of Covid-19. Postdigital Science and Education. Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-020-00169-6
19. Mukherjee, M & Koshal, N. (2020). “Other Ways of Knowing and Doing: Globalizing Social knowledge in Higher Education. Special Issue Editorial, The International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives Vol. 19, No 1 https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/IEJ
20. Mukherjee, M. (2020). Tagore’s “rooted-cosmopolitanism” and international mindedness against institutional sustainability. In Special Issue on Asian Cosmopolitanisms: Living and Learning Across Differences. Asia Pacific Journal of Education. 40 (1), 49-60.
21. Mukherjee, M. (2019). “Educating the Heart and the Mind: Conceptualizing Inclusive Pedagogy for Sustainable Development”. In Liz Jackson (Ed.) Asian Perspectives on Education for Sustainable Development. London & Singapore: Routledge [The chapter was originally published in the journal- “Educational Philosophy and Theory”]
22. Mukherjee, M. (2019). “Southern theory and postcolonial comparative education”. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.466 [RECEPIENT of 2021 Best Published Article award for by the Comparative and International Education Society South Asia (SIG)]
23. Mukherjee, M., & Suresh, K. (2018). Local and Global “Congeries” Shaping Educational Administration in India. In V. Fernandes & P. W. K. Chan (Eds.), Asia Pacific Education: Leadership, Governance and Administration (pp. 173-186). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
24. Mukherjee, M. (2018). “Decolonizing Pedagogy for Inclusive Education: Tagorean Analysis of a Case Study”. Kerry J Kennedy and John Chi-kin Le [Eds.]. Routledge International Handbook of Schools and Schooling in Asia– Chapter 67, Section 13: Education for Sustainable Development. London, New York & Singapore: Routledge [RECEPIENT of 2018 Taylor & Francis award for Outstanding Handbook in Behavioural Sciences]
25. Mukherjee, M. (2018). Tagore’s Legacy for Inclusive Education, Ecological Awareness and Intercultural Understanding, World Voices Nexus: The WCCES Chronicle, ISSN: 2522:7483
26. Mukherjee, M. (2017). “Global Design and Local Histories: Culturally embedded meaning-making for Inclusive Education”, International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, Vol 16, No.3 https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/IEJ/article/view/12169
27. Mukherjee, M. (2017). “Educating the Heart and the Mind: Conceptualizing Inclusive Pedagogy for Sustainable Development”. Educational Philosophy and Theory. Routledge Taylor & Francis, 49:5, 531-549, DOI:10.1080/00131857.2016.1185002
28. Mukherjee, M. (2017). “Transformative Spiritual School Leadership for Inclusive Education”. In Vachel Miller [Ed.]. Apocalyptic Leadership in Education. IAP Book Series Transforming Education for the Future. Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing http://www.infoagepub.com/products/Apocalyptic-Leadership-in- Education
29. Mukherjee, M. (2017). “Intercultural Dialogue and Inclusive Education: from Europe to Mandela’s South Africa and Tagore’s India”. Crain Soudien [Ed.]. Nelson Mandela: Global Perspectives of his Significance for Education. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers https://www.sensepublishers.com/catalogs/bookseries/comparative-and-international-education-a- diversity-of-voices/nelson-mandela/
30. Mukherjee, M. (2016). “From Missionary to New Middle Class Schooling in the Era of Global Capitalism: Dilemmas of Inclusive Education Reform in India” in Jeb Sprague [Ed]. Globalization and Transnational Capitalism in Asia and Oceania. London & Singapore: Routledge
31. Mukherjee, M. (2015). “Research Collaboration for Young Scholars of Indian Education: Case Study of a Global Conclave” in Mousumi Mukherjee [Guest Ed.] Special issue II. Policy Futures in Education, 13(3) first published on March 13, 2015, doi:10.1177/1478210315571218
32. Mukherjee, M. (2015). “Indian Education at the Crossroads of Postcoloniality, Globalization and 21stC Knowledge Economy [Editorial]” India Special Issue I. Policy Futures in Education, 13 (2) first published on February 18, 2015 as doi:10.1177/1478210314568180
33. Mukherjee, M. (2015). “Empowering the subaltern: Resources of Hope for those left behind within the Indian system” [Editorial] India Special Issue II. Policy Futures in Education, 13 (3) first published on February 23, 2015 as doi:10.1177/1478210315569036
34. Mukherjee, M. (2012) “U.S. Study Abroad from Periphery to the Center of the Global Curriculum in the Information Age”. Policy Futures in Education, 10 (1), Symposium Journals, UK
35. Esen, H., M., Peters, M.A., Mukherjee, M. et al. (2012) “A Post-Occidental Globe?” Policy Futures in Education, 10(1), Symposium Journals, UK
36. Mukherjee, M.(2010). Book Review: Cosa, José. Power, Politics and Higher Education in Southern Africa. New York: Cambria Press, 2008. African Studies Quarterly, 1(4), 127-129.

37. Mukherjee, M. (2009). Book Review: Masemann, V., Bray, M. & Manzon, M (Eds.). Common Interests Uncommon Goals: Histories of the Word Council of Comparative Education Societies and its Members. International Journal of   Lifelong Education, 1464-519X, 28(3) https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370902863477

1. Dhanji, S. & Mukherjee, M. (2023). How Indian students told to ‘go home’ by Australia at the start of the pandemic used WhatsApp for advocacy, Melbourne Asia Review, ISSN: 2652-550X
   
   
2. Mukherjee, M. (2020). Can a Better Higher Education System Emerge out of the Coronavirus Crisis? Higher Education in Southeast Asia and Beyond (HESB), Special Issue 8. Singapore: The Head Foundation
   
   
3. Mukherjee, M. (2020). Global Citizenship Education is answer to rising racism. University World News, 25 July 2020
4. Mukherjee, M. (2020). The Pandemic and the Tibetan Students. Seminar 733 Special Issue- Questioning Corona.
   
   
5. Mukherjee, M. (March 29, 2020). What coronavirus outbreak means for global higher education. Outlook Magazine
   
   
6. Mukherjee, M. et al. (2019). Introduction to Global Citizenship Education. In Sangeeta Pethiya & Soyhunlo Sebu  (Eds.). Global citizenship education: a handbook for teachers at upper primary level in India. Bhopal: Regional Institute of Education (NCERT). [Recipient of UNESCO Asia Pacific Centre for Education in International Understanding (APCEIU) award for one of the 5 Best Practices in 2019]
   
   
7.  Mukherjee, M and Srivastava, R (2019). Inclusive Education. In Global citizenship education: a handbook for teachers at upper primary level in India. Sangeeta Pethiya & Soyhunlo Sebu (Eds.). Bhopal: Regional Institute of Education (NCERT).  
   
   
8. Mukherjee, M. (2019). Embedding GCEd in social and political life textbooks. In Global citizenship education: a handbook for teachers at upper primary level in India. Sangeeta Pethiya & Soyhunlo Sebu (Eds.). Bhopal, Regional Institute of Education (NCERT).
   
   
9. Mukherjee, M. (2019). Ratna Ghosh: Short Biography & Significant Contributions. CIEclopedia. National Institute of Education. Singapore: Nanyang Technological University https://www.nie.edu.sg/research/cieclopedia-org/cieclopedia-org-a-to-z-listing/ghosh-ratna
   
   
10. Rizvi, F., Barron, R.J., Mukherjee, M. & Khan, A. (2016). An Overview of Schools Education in India and Australia.   Available online: https://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/publications/overview-school-education-india- and-australia/
    
    
11. Mukherjee, M. (Dec. 2014). Tagore’s Humanist Philosophy of Education and its Relevance in the Contemporary World.” Response to CIES 2015 Conference Theme-“Ubuntu! Imagining a Humanist Education Globally” available online: http://cies2015.org/response-mukherjee.html
    
    
12. Mukherjee, M. (2007). “My Fulbright Days” in Z.H. Usmani& N. K. Ghosh (Eds.) Beyond Boundaries: Reflections of Indian and US Scholar-, publication on the occasion of Fulbright 60^th Anniversary. New York: iUniverse, Inc.

2024

1. Faculty Research Grant: JGU/RGP/2023/010- to top-up ICSSR grant for project on “Motivations and Experiences of International Students in India: An Evidence-Based Approach to Internationalisation of Higher Education (IoHE) “
2. One of the 9 experts from Asia-Pacific region collaborating on UNESCO-APCEIU funded research project on “Redefining Global Citizenship Competencies from Asia-Pacific Perspectives”

2023

1. Melbourne Graduate School of Education- MGSE Community Excellence Alumni Award as Early-career Researcher
2. ICSSR major project on “Motivations and Experiences of International Students: An Evidence-Based Approach to Internationalisation of Indian Higher Education” | Grant ID: F.No.02/47/2022-23/ICSSR/RP/MJ/GEN

2021

1. South Asia (SIG) 2021 Best Published Article Award by the Comparative and International Education
2. Society for the article- Southern theory and postcolonial comparative education published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education in October 2019 as the featured article

2019

1. Faculty Research Grant: “Comparative and Global Perspectives on International Student Experiences: The Case of Tibetan Students in India”

2018

1. Faculty Research Grant: “Bridging Internationalization and Social Responsibility in Higher Education”
2. Fellow, Society of Transnational Academic Researchers (STAR) scholars Network

2017

1. Oceania Comparative and International Education Society Fellowship and Networking Grant

2016

1. First Runner-Up, Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation addressing social justice and equity issues in Education
2. International Travel Award for Distinguished Service in Educational Reform, Comparative and International Education Society

2015

1. Graduate Women Victoria International Doctoral Dissertation fellowship

2011

1. Melbourne International and Melbourne Graduate School of Education Scholarship

2010

1. The Graduate College Bouyoucos Fellowship, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign

2007

1. The Washington Centre Civic Engagement Award
2. Phi Beta Delta Honor Society Medallion for distinguished contribution in international education The School of Education & the Graduate School Dean’s Scholarship, Loyola University Chicago

2005

1. Fulbright Language Teaching Assistantship

1. Editorial Board Member, Taylor & Francis journal Teaching in Higher Education 2024-
   
   
2. Co-editor Springer Book Series on “Curriculum and School Development in Asia”
   
   
3. Guest Editor, Educational Philosophy and Theory Special Issue on “Shiksha Darshana”: Indian perspectives on Educational Philosophies and Theory”
   
   
4. International Advisory Board Member: Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education
   
   
5. Associate Editor: Journal of Underrepresented & Minority ProgressOpen Journals in Education (OJED)
   
   
6. Associate Editor, Routledge journal- Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education, April 2015-April2019
   
   
7. Guest Editor, Policy Futures in Education Special Issue on “Indian Education at the Crossroads of Postcoloniality, Globalization and the 21st Century Knowledge Economy” (Part 1) Vol. 13, Issue 2 & (Part 2) Vol. 13, Issue 3

1. Honorary Senior Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia since October 2022
   
   
2. Vice-President, Research and Partnerships Development, STAR Scholars Network since November 2022
   
   
3. Steering Committee Member, Association of Commonwealth University Supporting Research Community since Feb 2021
   
   
4. Research Standing Committee member, World Council of Comparative Education Societies since Feb 2020
   
   
5. International Education Advisory Board Member (Honorary), Morgan State University, USA since March 2023
   
   
6. Quality Advisory Board Member (Honorary), Adamas University, Kolkata, India since May 2022