Interview: Sr Noemia de Souza/Nirmala Niketan/history of education goa

[Pamela D'Mello]

https://goajournal.in/sister-noemia-de-souza-institution-builder-educator-religious/

[Tino de Sa]

What a lovely interview-article, Pamela. A marvellous nun too - I like that while dedicating herself to God, she is still very connected with people and the community - not closed in her convent walls - physically and mentally.

Tino

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 8:25 PM Pamela D'Mello <dmello...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://goajournal.in/sister-noemia-de-souza-institution-builder-educator-religious/

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[FM N]

Thanks, Pamela, for this interview. Sr Noemia's personal history gives us a genuine peep into the history of the times she describes.

Keep up your painstaking work.

Fatima

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[Pamela D'Mello]

Dear Tino and Fatima,

Am glad both of you found it interesting. I thought Sister Noemia was quite something too. Can hardly believe this is the first time she is getting any media space at all. Such a poverty of intellectual capital we suffer from.....

Pamela

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[William Robert Da Silva]

Nirmala Niketan was the teachers' institute par excellence. In 1990s when Konkani was to be medium of instruction and in nagari script, I offer to teach English teaching, poorly paid women and men teachers in large numbers, Nirmala Niketan came forward to give them teaching certificate for the work I had done with them. Much of Goan folklore was processed from trainees, which was collected from their caste-occupational homes, and reduced to writing for pupils. It became a model of teacher training. NN accepted it and certified the teachers  so that they could teach in Konkani medium and get a govt salary. I have met many of these teachers later with satisfied teaching and living. Unfortunately there was a backlash among Catholics of Goa. They wanted English medium back at primary level and challenged Alemao's educational reform.

William Robert Da Silva

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[Frederick Noronha]

Dr WIlliam, I think you are referring to the Nirmala Institute of Education (Altinho, Panjim). FN

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