Dear all concerned with education of the marginalised children in Jharkhand,
We are pleased to invite you to a two day workshop on "Consultations and
Network Building on Classroom Curriculum, Pluralism and Social Inclusion:
Voices from the Margin" that is being organized by Deshkal Society in
collaboration with UNICEF and in association with Prabhat Khabar at Ashoka
Hotel, Duranda, Ranchi on 15 December and 16 December, 2008 from 9.30 am to
4.30 p.m.
We are privileged to have the Prof. Stephen Marandi , the Deputy Chief
Minister, Government of Jharkhand for the inaugural session held on 15 December
2008 at 9.30 am. He has kindly accepted our request for inaugurating the
workshop. Mr.A. K. Basu, Chief Secretary, Government of Jharkhand has kindly
agreed to be the Chief Guest. We have already requested Prof.Ram Dayal Munda
for addressing the valedictory session. We would be honored, if you could
accept our invitation for participating in the two day workshop as a key
resource person.
The broad objective of the two day workshop is to contribute to developing new
tools, strategies and approaches to influence classroom curriculum, pedagogy,
school management towards the development of inclusive classrooms, schools and
systems, such that those currently marginalized are able to participate fully
in the education – across the spectrum -- and access their constitutional right
to education of an acceptable quality.
The themes of the two day workshop is given below:
· Practice of Classroom, Textbooks and Marginality
· Classroom, Teacher and Marginality
· Caste/Class, Ethnicity Classroom and Marginality
· Home, Classroom and Children
Here we would like share with you that the proposed workshop is part of our
long term sustainable programme on Classroom Curriculum, Pluralism and Social
Inclusion: Voices from the Margin. In this regard we are going to organise and
facilitate this process in the seven states of regional capital and five
regions of the India. These are as follows:
Northern region (Uttar Pradesh & Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and
Bihar and Rajasthan)
Southern region (Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka)
Eastern region (Orissa and Chhattisgarh)
Western region (Maharashtra)
North-East region (Assam, Meghalya and Manipur)
In this workshop we are inviting you as potential stakeholders along with other
stakeholders in Jharkhand for taking forward the agenda. We are inviting the
representatives of SSA, JCERT, teacher training colleges, international
agencies, department of education, etc. In this process, we are endeavoring
to ensure collective participation of best practitioners, schoolteachers,
trainers (DIET and independent) and pedagogic practitioners..
We would be privileged if you could accept our invitation to participate in the
workshop as a key resource person and contribute to the realization of the
agenda of the workshop.
A line in confirmation will be greatly appreciated for us to organise
logistics.
With warmest regards
Yours sincerely,
For Deshkal Society
Sanjay Kumar
Secretary
