Institute for Educational Research and Development (IERD) is the educational wing of Karnataka Haridasa Scientific Research Centre(KHSRC). IERD is working on certain basic concepts and pedagogic aspects of education since 1965.

The institute, at regular intervals, conducts lectures, seminars, symposia etc. on educational and allied fields. Several workshops and seminars were organized at the regional and national levels in a variety fields. Highly distinguished persons have participated in these events. Eminent poets, film personalities, environmentalists, Vice Chancellors of Universities, entomologists, scientists, educationalists, biologists, managers, academicians and the like have graced these occasions.

The institute has initiated many innovative programmes in varied fields such as economics, econometrics, mathematics, philosophy, management, education, astronomy, astrophysics, social science, and art and culture. The activities of IERD are anchored to the Structural School of Thought, an alternative methodology developed by Professor Ranganath Bharadwaj in response to the deepening methodological crisis in education.

Basic Research:

The Institute has been engaged in enquiring into the what, how and why of India's educational process. The scope, orientation and depth at which instructions is imparted in our educational institutions is getting critically evaluated continuously.

• The Structural Methodology has been applied to problems of both societal and scientific significance, with reference to education, as against the prevailing intellectual formalism.
• The structural method perceives the object of enquiry as a 'Structure';
• It recognizes the diversity and interdependence of phenomena.
• It directs the investigation of 'Being' and 'Becoming' of a phenomenon on the basis of the process by which facts manifest themselves or are forged.
• It recognizes each individual as being distinct and hence deserving unique treatment in order to help flower his/her individually so that he/she can contribute better to the collective well-being.

The institute has already completed several major studies. To name some of them:

• A Critique of the Newtonian Method and its philosophical foundations.
• Evolving empirical procedures to solve contemporary problems of business and individuals, social engineering, administration and so on.
• An Empirical Procedure of Locating an Extrema (the best) without resorting to the restrictive assumption of continuity, making a significant departure from the method of differential calculus.
• A systematic discussion of the basics of the Structural Method and its applications to different areas of societal significance.
• More than 100 important applications of this method in the various branches of science and arts have been made.
• A good deal of literature on the Structural Method has grown and has been acclaimed.
• Quite a number of Ph.D. dissertations, completed under the guidance of Prof. Bharadwaj and others at the Mumbai University and other Universities are based on the Structural line of thought.
• The new approach in relation to some of the immediate problems, has for instance, profound implications for Human Resource Development - a critical factor for ushering-in the new technologies