Jaipur based educator and researcher, Dr Lalit Kishore, is the one of the five Findel-CASTME Award- 2023 recipients, He is the only awardees from India for the year 2023, unlike two or more awards being bagged by Indian entrants for the last few years. Dr Kishore has been winning the coveted Commonwealth Award every year since 2018 for his innovative projects in STEM education. The awardees are from the countries; India (1 Awardee), Malta (2 Awardees), Nigeria (1 Awardee), Nigeria (1 Awardee) and Antigua (1 Awardee).
This is the second project of Dr Kishore on innovative maths education that has won the award. The current project is on feminisation of maths instruction and the earlier project was on language of mathematics. Rests of the projects were on STEM-inclusive science instruction and community awareness work.
“The award scheme is run by the Commonwealth Association of Science, Technology and Mathematics Educators, an organisation established in 1974 with an aim of sharing best practice across the STEM disciplines and to demonstrate the importance of STEM to local environments, schools and communities. Awards are offered for educational projects, which address the social or human context of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Any group or individual involved in any form of education in the widest senses, formal or informal, within societies can enter including pre-school, Primary or Secondary. Additionally, Tertiary education projects can be entered from school, college, university or from communities” inform the Findel-Castme award organizers
The entries for the awards for 2024 have been invited with 31st August as the dead line The entrants are urged to design, try-out and report the projects related innovative approaches in STEM education; sustainable development topics such as Climate Change, Responsible Consumption and Clean Water; raising STEM awareness among community such as parents, care-givers and young children in accordance with these aims in the specific area of each award. The names of successful recipients will be announced at the Association for Science Education Conference (ASE) held in early January, 2025, in England.
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