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Rukmini Ramachandran is an Indian Montessori educator, teacher trainer, and editor who directs the 3–6 teacher training programme at the Supraja Montessori Study Centre in Chennai and co-founded the Indian Montessori Foundation.[1][2]

Career

Ramachandran entered Montessori education in 1991, when she received an Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) primary (3–6) diploma after training under Zarin Malva in Mumbai. Before this, she worked as an assistant editor of a children's monthly magazine.[3]

The Yale University education scholar Mira Debs, writing in the peer-reviewed History of Education Quarterly, records that Ramachandran and Malva run AMI training centres in Chennai and Mumbai respectively, co-founded the Indian Montessori Foundation, and completed the overseas residency component of their AMI trainer training through scholarships and support from family abroad.[2]

Ramachandran is the Director of Training (3–6) at the Supraja Montessori Study Centre in Chennai, an AMI-recognised training centre.[1] She previously served as Director of Training at the Navadisha Montessori Foundation in Chennai before the organisation adopted its present name.[4][5] She holds AMI diplomas at three age levels and a master's degree in English.[3]

In January 2009, she served on the organising committee of the 26th International Montessori Congress, held at Kalakshetra in Chennai under the auspices of AMI, where she was listed as Director of Training of the Navadisha Montessori Institute.[5]

Editorial and film work

Ramachandran compiled and edited the lectures Maria Montessori delivered during her 1939 course in India into the two-volume work Creative Development in the Child: The Montessori Approach.[3]

She co-authored, with Mira Debs, the chapter "Montessori Education in India" in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Montessori Education.[6]

Ramachandran appeared as herself in the 2020 documentary film W Maria Montessori in a segment on the history of Montessori education in India.[7]

References

  1. "Supraja Montessori Study Centre". Association Montessori Internationale. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
  2. Debs, Mira (2022). "Montessori in India: Adapted, Competing, and Contested Framings, 1915–2021". History of Education Quarterly. 62 (4). Cambridge University Press.
  3. "Our Team". Supraja Montessori Study Centre. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
  4. "Work is a Child's play". The New Indian Express. 12 September 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
  5. "Montessori Method". Abacus Montessori School. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
  6. Ramachandran, Rukmini; Debs, Mira (2023). "Montessori Education in India". The Bloomsbury Handbook of Montessori Education. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 365. ISBN 978-1350275607.
  7. "W Maria Montessori". Cinematografo (in Italian). Fondazione Ente dello Spettacolo. Retrieved 25 June 2026.

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