[1] His academic oeuvre has drawn on multiple sources, including the school curriculum as a means of social inquiry.
As a teacher and bilingual writer, he has developed an aesthetic of pedagogy and knowledge that aspires to mitigate aggression and violence.
From 2004 to 2010, he was Director of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), an apex organization for curricular reforms in India.
Around the same time, he also started writing about children’s education in Dinaman and came under the influence of its editor, Raghuvir Sahay, a major poet and writer of modern Hindi.
Kumar’s first book, Raj, Samaj aur Shiksha, presents a revised version of some of the essays first published in Dinaman.
From 2004 to 2010, Prof Kumar served as the Director of National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT),[2] Delhi.