Educating for Peace - A Conversation with Dr Nandini Chatterjee Singh

Dr. Nandini Chatterjee Singh is a cognitive neuroscientist and
currently Senior Project Officer at UNESCO MGIEP (Mahatma Gandhi
Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development), in
New Delhi, India. UNESCO MGIEP focuses on achieving the UN
Sustainable Development Goal 4.7 towards education for building
peaceful and sustainable societies across the world by developing
programmes that promote social and emotional learning, innovate
digital pedagogies and empower the youth. Their mission is to
'build kinder brains.'


After receiving a PhD in physics from the University of Pune in
India, Nandini studied auditory learning mechanisms in songbirds
at University of California Berkeley. She returned to India
in 2002 and the first cognitive and neuroimaging laboratory in
India at the National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) in India,
where she set up SALLY (Speech and Language Laboratory). Using
behavioral and functional neuroimaging experiments, her
laboratory sought to understand neurodiversity especially
children with autism and dyslexia. Her research laboratory at
NBRC also conducted research on how Indian ragas elicit distinct
emotions.


Since 2017, Nandini has been at UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute
of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) where
she has led the development of EMC², a neuroscience-based
framework that builds SEL competencies of Empathy(E), Mindfulness
(M), Compassion (C) and Critical Inquiry (C). She is focused on
designing new interactive curricula using innovative digital
pedagogies like digital games, digital dialogue to cultivate SEL
and she conducts cross-cultural research to assess their efficacy
in school education systems.


Social Links


LinkedIn: @nandini-chatterjee-singh


Twitter: @nanchatter; @UNESCO_MGIEP