Shikha Takker

Shikha is an Assistant Professor at the Indira Mahindra School of Education at Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India. She has been working in the area of mathematics teacher education. She is interested in the dialectics of research and practice, and how these can be used to inform and learn from practices. As part of her postdoctoral research, she worked on supporting secondary mathematics teachers in their knowledge of specific topics adapting the socio-cultural frameworks of learning. In her PhD research, she attempted to create a community of researchers and teachers to investigate and orchestrate responsive teaching that supports teachers in responding to contingent classroom situations. She has developed several courses for pre-service teacher education programmes; organized and conducted workshops for teachers, subject leads, school principals and education officers; and developed topic-specific modules through working with students and teachers. She has taught courses to undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral students, and working professionals.

Her areas of interest include mathematics education, teacher education and professional development, responsive teaching, students’ thinking, teacher learning and reflections on theoretical frames.