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mallika.kanyal@anglia.ac.uk

Qualifications & Memberships

• MSc
• PGCE
• PG Cert
• BSc

• Member of Early Childhood Research Group (ECRG), Anglia Ruskin University
• Member of British Education Research Association (BERA), UK

Courses

• Pathway Leader: BA (Hons) Early Years Professional Practice

Outline of Career

Mallika has got experience in teaching, research and training. She has works as a Senior Lecturer and has taught on different Early Years undergraduate pathways. She has participated in several research projects in the area of social sciences.

Mallika also has experience as a trainer and has trained child development workers (anganwadi workers) under Integrated Child Development Services Scheme, Government of India.

Research Interests

Children's participation: Children's perceptions of school experience, participatory research methods, children's right to participation, using audio-visual aids to explore children's perceptions of their learning environments.

Children's socio-emotional development: peer selection and peer relations, children's friendship, parenting styles and their influence and cultural diversity.

Selected publications

Kanyal, M. 2012. Promoting Children's Participation in Education: Developing a Culture of Participation, In B. Bastick-Boufoy, 2012. The International Handbook of Cultures of Teacher Education: Comparative International Issues in Curriculum and Pedagogy. Strasbourg: Analytrics.

Kanyal, M. and Cooper, L., 2012. Young children's perceptions of their classroom environment: perspectives from England and India. In, T. Papatheodorou and J. Moyles (Eds) Cross-cultural perspectives on early childhood. London: Sage

Kanyal, M. and Cooper, L. (2010). Young children's perceptions of their school experience: a comparative study between England and India, paper presented at the 'World Conference on Educational Sciences Bahcesehir University, Istanbul - Turkey', February, 2010 and published in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2(2), p 3605-3613.

Kanyal, M. and Cooper, L. (2010). Learning to attend to children's voices: determining more responsive learning environments Paper presented at the International conference: Early Childhood Curriculum, Policy And Pedagogy In The 21st Century: An International Debate, at Anglia Ruskin University, UK, March 2010.

Kanyal, M. (2010) Children's perceptions of their school experience, Virtual contribution at the 2nd Paris International Conference on Education, Economy & Society.

Negi, M. Balda, S. Malik, P.(2004). Social behaviour and sociometric status of 6-8 years old girls. Indian Journal of Social Research. Vol 45(2):159-164.

Negi, M. and Balda, S. (2002). Paternal control practices and sociometric status of 6-8 years old children. Journal of Human Ecology. Vol 13(6): 451-461.

Balda, S. and Negi, M. (2001). Peer ratings and social problem-solving skills of 8-9 year old children. Indian Journal of Social Science, Vol 5(4): 231-233

Balda, S. Lrying, K. and Negi, M. (2001). Behavioural problems in preschool-aged girls: Interplay of nature and nurture. Paper presented at National conference on 'Women and Development in India-Issues and Challenges' at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.

Please note, family name prior to 2004 publications: Negi.