Meenakshi Sivaramakrishnan
Meenakshi Sivaramakrishnan is an Indian educator, who has promoted the Montessori method of education in India for the past four decades.
Her association with different organisations[edit]
Meenakshi was the Member of the Board, Association Montessori Internationale, Amsterdam for three terms.[1] Between 1980–89 she was the Honorary Secretary of the Society for Further Propagation of the Montessori Movement in India (FPMM). She is an ex officio member of the Affiliated Montessori Society, Hyderabad. She has been a member of the Karnataka State Council for Child Welfare (KSCCW).[2] She has been the vice-president of KSCCW since 1996. She is also the member of the Indian Council for Child Welfare, New Delhi since 1997. Meenakshi is a member on the advisory board of many Montessori houses of Children and Montessori Associations in the country.
Books authored and edited[edit]
Meenakshi speaks and writes fluently in English, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Bengali. She has written and edited quite a few Montessori-related books and periodicals over the years. She was the editor for the periodical Voice of Innocence published by the Further Propagation of the Montessori Movement in India (FPMM) and the Indian Montessori Centre (IMC) between 1990 and 1996. She has also edited the following works:
- Towards a Healthy Humanity which is in its third edition
- Gateways to Montessori, Vol I and II also in its third edition
- Mario Montessori Sr. Muses Vol I, II, and III
- Montessori Directress.
Meenakshi has also translated Montessori's popular book The Secret of Childhood into Kannada, and translated another Montessori publication aimed at parents, Take Montessori Home, into Tamil. She has written a bilingual book on Montessori materials entitled Montessori Ubakaranangal.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1993, AMI Communications, Vol. 2/3 pp. 24
- ↑ Karnataka State Council for Child Welfare – Members
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