Ganga Gautam

Namaste (Greetings) ! 

I am Ganga Ram Gautam, Associate Professor of English Education at Tribhuvan University in Nepal, currently working as a freelance consultant. Previously, I was the Director of Open and Distance Education Center (ODEC) of Tribhuvan University and English language teacher educator for nearly three decades.

As a teacher educator, I train English teachers of all levels levels of education. My main responsibilities include teaching, supervising research and evaluating student work. As a Member of the Subject Committee, I contribute to the revision and dissemination of B. Ed. and M. Ed. curricula in English Education throughout Nepal. I also design teacher training packages and prepare trainers for the teacher education programs of the Ministry of Education. Currently, I am the Director of Open and Distance Education Center (ODEC) of Tribhuvan University (TU). My roles in this capacity include coordinating online education programs of TU and developing the capacity of the TU Faculty Members for blended and online education. 

I am the past President (2009 - 2011) of Nepal English Language Teachers' Association (NELTA), which I co-founded in 1992. I  have been involved to organize national and international conferences and capacity building workshops for the NELTA trainers. I am also the General Secretary of Teacher Educators' Society Nepal (TESON), a professional association of the teacher educators in Nepal.

In addition to teaching, I am involved in educational research, innovation management and community development. I have worked on a number of community development projects that focus on children's education, school development, school governance, educational leadership,  technical/vocational education, girls' education and women's empowerment.

I have an M.Ed. in English Education from Tribhuvan University in Nepal,  an MA in ELT from Lancaster University in the UK and a PhD from Kathmandu University in Nepal. I have presented and participated in a number of workshops, seminars and conferences in Nepal and abroad.

I was at Boston University as a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in the year 2010/11. During the Humphrey year, I learned how ESL/EFL programs are managed in multi-lingual settings and how cultural diversity is addressed in the US education. I also shared my rich and diverse experiences with the US educators. Similarly, I was at the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, USA as an Echidna Global Scholar in the year 2016. During my stay at Brookings, I completed a research on girls education entitled "Empowering Adolescent Girls in Rural Nepal". 

Here are some of the links of my observations in different forums: 

1) My personal page at BU website: http://www.bu.edu/hhh/fellows/2010-2011-fellows/ganga-ram-gautam/

2) My reflective notes of my Humphrey Fellowship can be read at Fulbright Nepal Newsletter  and July Issue of Neltachoutari. 

3) News about my contributions to the girls' empowerment movement in Nepal - Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/2017/07/21/men-fighting-menstruation-shaming-developing-world-634902.html

4) My research as an Echidna Scholar at the Center for Universal Education at Brookings - https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2016/12/21/watch-empowering-adolescent-girls-in-rural-nepal/

5) My observations on teaching English in the US - What we could learn from there ! 

https://neltaeltforum.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/487/

6) My contributions to TU during COVID-19 that I shared in the US Alumni Newsletter

https://mailchi.mp/iie/humphrey-fellowship-program-weekly-report-march-29-april-2-2021?e=c24a8bc09e&fbclid=IwAR1Yab2VPjzUqPS4gjAFIvibL1YAuppRfpGzZSYBV15fJABgWDHvufa7oCE