Prof. Yash P. Aggarwal, Prof. Emeritus's, Kurukshetra's visit to MANUU
Introduction of Prof. Yash P. Aggarwal*
I am happy to introduce Prof. Yash P. Aggarwal an
eminent teacher educator to the University in general and Department of
Education and Training in particular and be part of a guest lecturer in the
Department of Education and Training, MANUU, Hyderabad. It is my pleasure to
introduce Prof. Aggarwal, who himself is well aware of Urdu and loves Urdu. This
is not his first but, second visit to MANUU and to the department. In my
informal interaction, he informed me that he has studied Urdu till his 10th
standard, and used this language along with Persian for interaction and
correspondence with his father, which rarely most of us do today, as today’s
whatsApp, Facebook, email takes us away from our languages and make us interact
in an alien language English with our own people, which is knowingly or
unknowingly adopted by all of us.
Dr. Aggarwal had a humble beginning as he started his
career as a school teacher thereafter he rose to become a Lecturer in
Kurukshetra University, and reflecting upon his growth he admits that his
aspirations, dreams or ‘Khwab’ led him to higher education. He completed his
Ph.D. by getting a Commonwealth scholarship at Harward University. He joined
Kumaon University in the natural settings of Nainital and rose to the position
of Professor in Education. He has retired from University system way back in 1997,
but not tired as he is running a school experimenting innovative teaching methodologies
with poor and downtrodden children and bringing them back to school. He is
doing research on teaching and learning on young students and engaged in
training young faculty and research scholars in Technology of Teaching and
Research at several Universities and Colleges. Presently, he is residing at Kurukshetra
and also working as a Professor Emeritus, for Kurukshetra University giving
various inputs to higher level bodies in the Universities.
In his illustrious career he has obtained national and
international awards. The International research awards include Fulbright
Research Fellowship in 1994; Shastri Indo Canadian Research Fellowship, 1993;
Commonwealth Research Fellowship (1969-72) and the national research awards
include UGC Emeritus Fellowship 1997-1999, Nomination to Swami Pravadananda
National Award, Emeritus Professor for life at Kurukshetra University. He has
delivered many Foreign Lectures, which include lectures at Harvard, Ottawa,
Toronto, Indiana in USA and Canada. He has thirty five years of teaching
experience at P.G. level at two Universities and supervised twenty five Ph.D.
theses. He has written more than 50 articles and twelve books which include
popular books like, Better sampling: concepts, techniques, and evaluation; New Dimensions in
Education: Concepts and Research; Sampling Methods for Social
Investigation; Higher Education in India: A Survey; Introduction to
Statistics for Social Sciences. All these have brought name and fame to the
reputed academician like Prof. Aggarwal.
On family front is blessed with a happy family, wife
Ms. Usha a retired Professor at senior secondary grade, daughter who is a
medico and son who is software engineer and heading a company as a Vice
Chairman. As both the children are settled abroad, this makes his schedule
busy, as he keeps travelling extensively and shuttling between India and USA.
Without taking much of the time, I welcome you Sir to
the University and request you to enlighten all our students, scholars and all
others interested in the field of educational research. I thank Prof. H.
Khatija Begum, Dean, School of Education and Training and Prof. Mohammed
Mehamood Siddiqui for facilitating arrangement of this guest lecture. Thank you
and Welcome one and all.
Prof. Mushtaq Ahmed I. Patel
* The visitor delivered a guest lecture on 11.08.2015, at Education and Training, MANUU for M.Ed. students, where I introduced the guest. Prof. H. Khatija Begum, Dean, Education and Training, MANUU and Prof. Mohd. Mehmood Siddiqui, Head, Education and Training and I/c Controller of Examination, MANUU, were also present.