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A symposium on teaching experiences, pedagogical innovation, and classroom stories — organised for and by the faculty of Krea University.
Thursday, 24 July 2025 · 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM IST
Open to all — students, faculty, and external guests
9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Krea University Department of Economics
Seminar Room 201, SIAS Academic Block
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Tales from Teaching is Krea University’s first faculty symposium dedicated entirely to the lived experience of teaching. In classrooms, seminars, and studios across our campus, faculty members navigate moments of unexpected insight, productive failure, and genuine connection with students every single day.
This event creates a dedicated space to surface, reflect on, and learn from those experiences — through papers, panel discussions, workshops, and open conversations. It is not a conference about pedagogy theory. It is a gathering of practitioners who teach.
Whether you are a faculty member with a story to tell, an early-career teacher looking for community, or an education researcher tracking what happens inside university classrooms — this symposium is built for you.
Speakers & Facilitators
Paper Submissions
Institutions
Speakers & Facilitators
Krea University is a liberal arts and sciences university that believes in integrated intelligence — a commitment to connecting disciplines, people, and ideas. The Centre for Teaching & Learning (CTL) at Krea was established to help faculty grow as teachers alongside their growth as scholars and researchers.
CTL offers workshops, peer observations, and a growing archive of teaching reflections from across the university. Tales from Teaching is the Centre’s most ambitious undertaking — a symposium that turns the
reflective practice of teaching itself into a shared intellectual event.
Submit a paper, short reflection, or practice note on any experience from your teaching life. We welcome methodological rigour and personal narrative equally.
10 Jan 2026
By 31 January 2026
Selected papers will be
published in the Krea Teaching Journal (peer-reviewed, open access)
Papers: 3,000–6,000 words
Reflections: 800–1,500 words
APA 7th edition formatting
Our speakers are practitioners — faculty who teach every day, and researchers who study what happens when they do.
Director of Pedagogy Research
Director of Pedagogy Research
Keynote Speaker · Professor of Literature
Keynote Speaker · Professor of Literature
Keynote Speaker · Professor of Literature
Keynote Speaker · Professor of Literature
Keynote Speaker · Professor of Literature
Keynote Speaker · Professor of Literature
Keynote Speaker · Professor of Literature
Papers and sessions are organised around four thematic tracks, each exploring a different dimension of the teaching experience.
Keynote Speaker · Professor of Literature
Keynote Speaker · Professor of Literature
Keynote Speaker · Professor of Literature
IFMR Hall Foyer
Prof. Sridhar Rajagopalan, Krea University
Prof. Priya Raghavan · Krea University
3 papers per track, 25 mins each with Q&A
Faculty Dining Hall
Dr. Shalini Kumar · TISS Mumbai
Moderated by Dr. Arjun Menon | Panelists: Prof. Raghavan, Dr. Joshi, Mr. Thyagarajan
Krea University Lawns
IFMR Hall Foyer
Prof. Sridhar Rajagopalan, Krea University
Prof. Priya Raghavan · Krea University
3 papers per track, 25 mins each with Q&A
Faculty Dining Hall
Dr. Shalini Kumar · TISS Mumbai
Tales from Teaching is organised by the Centre for Teaching & Learning, Krea University, with an interdisciplinary committee of faculty volunteers.
Tales from Teaching is organised by the Centre for Teaching & Learning, Krea University, with an interdisciplinary committee of faculty volunteers.
(Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
(Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
(Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
(Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
(Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
(Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
Tales from Teaching is a small, intentional gathering — we have kept attendance limited tomaintain the quality of conversation. Spaces for in-person attendance are limited.
All current Krea faculty and staff members
No fee
Faculty from identified partner institutions
Early bird
Any faculty member or education researcher
Early bird
Online access to all sessions via livestream
All categories
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Krea University’s mission is to help humanity prepare for an unpredictable world. This mission brings with it the heightened responsibility to address some of the toughest global challenges through cutting-edge ideas, insights, and lessons. Krea’s resolution mission is to be a catalyst of change and create lasting value through multi-dimensional change.
While Tales from Teaching is an inaugural event, Krea’s CTL has been hosting smaller internal faculty dialogues since 2022. Here are some moments from those gatherings.
Can’t find your answer? Email us at [email protected]
Have questions about submissions, registration, or accessibility? Reach
out to the CTL team and we’ll get back to you within one working day.
+91 44 6741 2000 ext. 231
Centre for Teaching & Learning Krea University, Sri City Chittoor, Andhra Pradesh 517 646
Director of Pedagogy Research
Anurag Singh is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and independent cinematographer from India, with over three decades of experience in creating feature-length, mid-length, and short documentary films. He has worked extensively with various movements and civil society organisations such as the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA, Madhya Pradesh), Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS, Rajasthan), and the National Campaign for People’s Right to Information (NCPRI, New Delhi), among others, documenting people’s struggles for rights and narrating unheard stories of India’s structurally excluded communities. He has also made documentary films for notable NGOs such as SWRC/Barefoot College, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF), and Vikas Samvad. He is the founder and Director of Roughcut Productions, a unique collective of independent filmmakers, journalists, and photographers that has produced works for international entities such as the UNDP, ActionAid, Norwegian Church Aid, Google, and the Government of India, on projects in countries like Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Mali, and Afghanistan.
Anurag Singh has developed and taught practice-based documentary filmmaking modules at various institutions, including the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Doon University, and the School for Democracy. He has also contributed to the Centre for Development of Instructional Technology (CENDIT), an organization that pioneered the use of audiovisual technology to communicate and teach socio-political theories in India.
