Maithreyi has co-authored a paper along with researchers from Pennsylvania State University, Georgia State University, and Indiana University Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC), USA, and Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. The paper titled “Ironies of democracy: Purposes of education and the construction of citizens in Sweden, India and the United States” looks at the national curricular frameworks of the three countries (Sweden, India and USA) and examines the tensions that emerge as countries attempt to instill national concerns of citizenship through education, in a context of increasing pressure on national education systems to adopt global madates and frameworks. The paper has been published in Citizenship Teaching & Learning (April 2016), Volume 11 Number 2. The paper can be viewed here.
