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ZHCES organizes a Seminar

ZHCES organizes a Seminar

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One-day Workshop
 
CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AND CULTURES OF LEARNING IN INDIA
 
Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies
School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
 
On 
 
22 March 2019 (Friday), 9:30 AM onwards
 SSS-I Committee Room, Jawaharlal Nehru University
 
Concept note
 
Notwithstanding the master narratives of nationalism, development and progress hang around India’s education system, there is a consistent and unending dialogue and exchange of ideas, pedagogical practices, and cultures of learning which takes place in institutions of higher education. Breakdown of democratic institutions, attack on the critical intellectuals and total collapse of the public sphere of the last half a decade have valorised the critical agency and social imagination. Narrowly perceived conceptions such as access, inclusion and quality in education prescribed for policy framework by and large neglected the substantial aspects of pedagogy and cultures of learning. Apart from holding back the accountability, differentiated roles of teaching, learning and researching are hard to defend academic reason. Moreover, the experiences of the whole movement of life entrenched in action and relationship with one another (including nature) have not yet fully recognized as the site of learning. The proposed workshop intends to debate the intellectual responses on developing and expanding the conceptual framework on the idea of cultures of learning. Instead of limiting the transactional act of learning in academic space, cultures of learning may open up multiple shades of transformation and transcendence at multiple sites. The critical pedagogy questions these given assumptions and breaking the narrow conceptual boundaries as an act of politics which are obligatory for democratization of education.
 
Coordinator: Dr. Suresh Babu G.S (faculty)
Student coordinator: Ms. Arunima Naithani (doctoral student)
Email: arunima.n@gmail.com

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.