This page introduces Sunita and her pioneering education work. Sunita Gandhi is an Indian educator, researcher and social entrepreneur, best known as the founder and CEO of DEVI (Dignity Education Vision International) and a leading advocate for “disruptive literacy” and accelerated Foundational Literacy and Numeracy.
- ALfA Pedagogy and DEVI - City Montessori School in Luknow
# Background Sunita Gandhi holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge and worked for around a decade as an economist at the World Bank on education policy and development programmes before returning to India to focus full-time on school reform and literacy.
She co-founded City International School in Lucknow, helped design the Global Education Model of Schooling (GEMS), and established multiple education initiatives including the Council for Global Education (USA) and DEVI Sansthan in India.
# Work On Disruptive Literacy Through DEVI and the Global Dream campaign, Gandhi has promoted the idea that children and adults can achieve basic literacy and numeracy in a matter of weeks or months using intensive, joyful methods such as ALfA Pedagogy, rather than over many years of conventional schooling.
She is co-author of the book *Disruptive Literacy: A Roadmap for Urgent Global Action* and leads the Disruptive Literacy Partnership, working with governments, NGOs and schools in India and other countries to scale fast-track FLN programmes.
# Recognition Gandhi has received multiple awards and honours for her work in education, including “Educationist of the Year” recognitions and state-level honours such as “Visionary of Uttar Pradesh.”
Her methods and assessments have been piloted in schools in India, Iceland and the UK, and she continues to be an active voice in national and global debates on how to achieve universal foundational learning at speed and scale.
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