DISHA Conference 2013 -- Education in South Asia: Looking Beyond 2015
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From: Meg Whittenberger <mawhitt...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:12 PM
Subject: DISHA Conference 2013 -- Education in South Asia: Looking Beyond 2015
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The inspiration for this conference is driven by this moment in history. The year 2015 marks an opportunity for us to reassess our goals for education in South Asia. For decades we have concentrated on issues of access, with donors focused on universalization of primary education, gender parity, and teacher shortage. However, as we approach the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals and Education for All, it is a time for retrospection, for renewing our commitments to children and learning, and for reconsidering the frameworks within which we have been working. How can we increase the quality of learning, as opposed to mere access to schooling? Should our priorities start and end in primary school? How does the production of knowledge and culture of schooling affect youth, citizenship, and nation? As practitioners and academics in education and South Asian studies, we have an obligation to consider these questions. This conference aims to highlight graduate research in these domans and to serve as a platform for exploration.
For more information, please contact mawhitt...@gmail.com or mtc...@tc.columbia.edu.
Organized by DISHA (Development in South Asia); Co-Sponsored by the Teachers College Vice President’s Diversity and Community Initiatives Grant Fund and the Society for International Education at TC
To request disability-related accommodations contact OASID at oa...@tc.edu, (212) 678-3689, (212) 678-3853 TTY, (646) 755-3144 video phone, as early as possible.
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From: Meg Whittenberger <mawhitt...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:12 PM
Subject: DISHA Conference 2013 -- Education in South Asia: Looking Beyond 2015
To: grad-student...@googlegroups.com
Education in South Asia: Looking Beyond 2015
A graduate student-led conference, hosted by DISHA
Teachers College, Columbia University, Room TBA
Saturday, April 6, 10 am-5:30 pm
The inspiration for this conference is driven by this moment in history. The year 2015 marks an opportunity for us to reassess our goals for education in South Asia. For decades we have concentrated on issues of access, with donors focused on universalization of primary education, gender parity, and teacher shortage. However, as we approach the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals and Education for All, it is a time for retrospection, for renewing our commitments to children and learning, and for reconsidering the frameworks within which we have been working. How can we increase the quality of learning, as opposed to mere access to schooling? Should our priorities start and end in primary school? How does the production of knowledge and culture of schooling affect youth, citizenship, and nation? As practitioners and academics in education and South Asian studies, we have an obligation to consider these questions. This conference aims to highlight graduate research in these domans and to serve as a platform for exploration.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Radhika Iyengar
Panel 1: Early Childhood Education in South Asia
Panel 2: Technology for Education in South Asia
Panel 3: Postcolonial and Post-structuralist Perspectives on Youth and Schooling in South Asia
Schedule to follow
Happy hour/networking event to follow, Location TBA
Organized by DISHA (Development in South Asia); Co-Sponsored by the Teachers College Vice President’s Diversity and Community Initiatives Grant Fund and the Society for International Education at TC
To request disability-related accommodations contact OASID at oa...@tc.edu, (212) 678-3689, (212) 678-3853 TTY, (646) 755-3144 video phone, as early as possible.
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