some institutions cannot survive without thse two terms such institutions can be seen in abundance especially places like Indraprastham in fact, i m fed up with this shitty business of M S Swaminathan kinda sustainable developmnt, community radio, development communication, UNESCO projects for "developing countries"...etc etc (and one cannot always resist the temptation as well) and early birds are always there to catch these worms
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Maya <maya.sssmgu2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Damodar Prasad, > This was a notice . And the points you raised are worth discussing , I > agree. It is getting organised along with State Planning Board. May be thats > the reason for project language use too. But , just using some particular > terms doesnt show the whole purpose and the entire content. It may be good > if you could participate and make your points here seeing what all papers > are presented. > Having done my PhD here and teaching here at present, I dont think this > would be loosing a critical social science faculty. As far as I could > understand this is not for making job-generating kind of exercise. Skill > doesnt mean simply physical, but could be the ability of individuals, > institutions and societies to perform functions, solve problems, and set and > achieve objectives in masking a sustainable society. > To make the students understand the pupose of studying social sciences is > a task. To get people who have the capacity to take that task is another > task ! Cant the social scientists think about this?! These issues would be > there around various disciplines except the professional courses. But how > come IITs and Central Universities are great , and polytechnics are > degrading !!! > Maya > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:07 PM, damodar prasad > <damodar.pra...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Capacity buliding- is this term still in use? the next one is Human >> Development? who is forwarding this here: a senior research scholar >> belonging to SS, MGU, (as I understand). >> dear maya, >> when has our ciritcal social science faculty taken to recourse to the >> language of project management. Is ss Plainning some MBA/MHRM programme. >> I just askd.. some of our new higher-education thinkers, owing to their >> deeply "*Painkalikkal*" ( പൈങ്കളിക്കല്) mind has been inducing the idea >> that SS and Humanities curriculum compabiltity with the changing times is to >> deflect from the prupose of education and make it more sklli-based, >> job-generating kind of excercise. >> Instead of asking for IITs and Central Universities, we should be fighting >> for more no: of POLYTECHINCS!! >> >> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Maya <maya.sssmgu2...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> A Five Day Workshop on >>> >>> *Capacity** **Building** Programme under Human Development in Higher >>> Education* >>> >>> * * >>> >>> * * >>> *7-11 July 2009* >>> *School** of **Social Sciences*** >>> >>> *Mahatma** **Gandhi** **University*** >>> >>> * * >>> >>> *Concept* >>> >>> Human development is a process of enlarging people’s choices achieved by >>> expanding human capabilities. In the case of the community of teachers and >>> researchers, it would mean development of capabilities for being >>> accomplished in one’s area of specialization. To be accomplished through >>> human development in higher education means to be professional in the >>> production and transmission of specialized new knowledge with a holistic >>> comprehension providing clarity about the relation of one’s specialization >>> to national development strategies, i.e., the relation to politics. It is >>> the state of being deeply knowledgeable in one’s field with critical >>> insights into its relation to social development. This level of human >>> development is engendered by the politics of knowledge that facilitates >>> creative intervention in national policy formulations. Such accomplished >>> academicians of critical consciousness, social justice, political >>> self-respect, sense of belonging to the society and intellectual >>> productivity empower the people with necessary insights enabling informed >>> participation in public policy debates. Though there is no dearth of >>> academicians in the country, accomplished among them are very few. >>> >>> From the lack of academically accomplished human resources has >>> followed severe incapacity to conduct people-centred and empowerment >>> oriented research adapting scientific findings available at the global >>> level. A national research capacity enabling the country to share and >>> contribute to the stock of global public goods is wanted. Scientific >>> >>> Communication facilitating tests, confirmation and sharing research >>> results with the global scientific community for providing credible advice >>> to national policy makers is not at a desirable height. Research based >>> curriculum percolating relevant international domains of knowledge in a >>> perspective of national as well as local developments are long way off. This >>> is not to mean that number of higher education institutions and the extent >>> of facilities of teaching and research in the country is inadequate. >>> Nevertheless, there is a widespread backwardness with a trend of exponential >>> decay in the domain of higher education. A sense of alienation affects most >>> of the youth and impedes appropriate learning even after specialization that >>> is supposed to make them accomplished. An explanation to this lack of >>> qualified knowledge is the past inability to construct a coherent education >>> system appropriate to the national social development. There are many >>> constraints to the higher education systems in the country, but generally >>> speaking, quality could have been improved with a more holistic approach to >>> the different levels of education. Instead skewed education efforts have led >>> into vicious circles: without Quality Teacher Education, primary education >>> became poor, leading to low standard at secondary schools, leaving college >>> education deplorable and Universities filled with substandard students. This >>> has created a deficit of skilled human resources in the country. Many >>> national and state level programmes of quality enhancement are in progress. >>> It is the context of the present workshop on capacity building under human >>> development in higher education. >>> >>> >>> >>> The concept of human development capacity is the essential >>> lubricant of development, more important even than finance. The UN >>> Development Programme has defined "capacity" as "the ability of individuals, >>> institutions and societies to perform functions, solve problems, and set and >>> achieve objectives in a sustainable manner". The terms "capacity building" >>> or "capacity development" describe the task of developing levels of human >>> and institutional capacity. Building institutional and organisational >>> capacity through human resource management has been widely attended to in >>> the country. However, capacity building for knowledge management as a part >>> of human development has not been getting that much attention. The report >>> prepared by the Millennium Project for the 2005 UN "Millennium+5" summit in >>> New York pointed to the need for a wide range of capacity building >>> interventions. It called in particular for "massive" human resource training >>> programmes for community-based and local government workers involved in >>> areas such as water, agriculture, nutrition and health. Nevertheless, human >>> resource development initiatives for improving knowledge production and >>> effective transmission are not given any specific focus. The National >>> Knowledge Commission of India constituted with the objective of transforming >>> India into a knowledge society emphasises the need for strengthening >>> Universities >>> as the hub of research capturing synergies between teaching and research >>> that enrich each other. It is widely recognized today that human >>> development depends on human capacity - the knowledge, skills, energy and >>> commitment of individuals and communities, and the strength of the >>> institutions they create and manage. >>> >>> >>> >>> Information and communications technologies (ICTs) have become an >>> integral component of capacity building at all levels. To support advances >>> in ICTs, impart instruction and transact curriculum meaningfully, it is >>> absolutely necessary not only to possess a critical mass of highly motivated >>> and trained human capital, but also to continuously upgrade their skills. >>> >>> >>> >>> The key objectives of the Workshop are: >>> >>> - To underline the need for increasing the pool of serious >>> researchers by up-skilling early career researchers, and supporting the >>> advancement of their research careers >>> - To facilitate development of teaching, learning and research >>> capacities among early career faculty members and research students in >>> their >>> respective areas of knowledge >>> - To empower early career researchers to undertake more high quality >>> research and ensure its relevance to policy and practice by aligning it >>> with >>> identified needs and priorities of people >>> >>> In order to realize the above objectives the workshop is proposed to be >>> structured into three constituents: a) Methodological Up-skilling, b) >>> Communicative Up-skilling, and c) Practices. Methodological up-skilling will >>> involve up-dated lectures in theory of knowledge and knowledge production. >>> Some of the sophisticated analytical tools and interpretational strategies >>> essential for enhancing high quality research would be introduced. >>> Communicative up-skilling would include familiarisation of the most relevant >>> techniques of communication in writing research expositions and their oral >>> presentations. Demonstration of potentials of ICT will form a major >>> component there. Practices will comprise exercises for learning how to >>> practise. This constituent will familiarise the participants with the praxis >>> dimension of theoretical lectures under the first constituent, and exercises >>> relating to the application of communicative tools. >>> >>> *Composition of the Workshop* >>> >>> The workshop is to have a composition of 30 participants drawn from among >>> teachers and research students. Of them half will be selected by the State >>> Planning Board and the other half by Mahatma Gandhi University. It would be >>> ideal to pick the beginners. The Workshop is conceived to be residential >>> because the five day workshop seeking to realise the central objective of >>> up-skilling as noted above will require 60 work-hours. We conceive three >>> sessions: The morning session of four hours (9 am to 1 pm with a break of >>> fifteen minutes), The afternoon session of four hours (2 pm to 6 pm with a >>> break of fifteen minutes) and a night session of two hours (7 pm to 9 pm >>> without break). The workshop will have ten resource persons in all including >>> the co-ordinator. >>> >>> >>> >>> Contact for registration: Radhika teacher (ph: 9447015664) >>> >>> Dr. Sanal Mohan ( >>> sanal.mo...@gmail.com) >>> >>> >>> >>> Note: There is no registration fee. The registration form would be >>> available from the contact persons. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Maya S. >>> >>> > > > -- > Maya S. > > > > -- " The so called caste-hindus are bitterly opposed to the depressed class using a public tank not because they really believe that the water will be thereby spoiled or will evaporate but because they are afraid of losing their superiority of caste and of equality being established between the former and the latter. We are resorting to this satyagraha not becasue we believe that the water of this particular tank has any exceptional qualities, but to establish our natural rights as citizens and human beings." - Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Mahad Satyagraha Conference, December 25th , 1927 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. 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