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ZHCES organises International Mother Language Day

ZHCES organises International Mother Language Day

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National Multilingual Education Resource Consortium (NMRC)
Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies
School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

(With financial support from Shasthri Indo-Canadian Institute)


International Mother Language Day, 21 February 2023


Decolonising Higher Education: Multilingual Pedagogy and Epistemic Justice

Venue: Committee Room, SSS I, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Date: 21 February 2023


Convener: Professor Minati Panda, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The seminar titled, “Decolonising Higher Education: Multilingual Pedagogy and Epistemic Justice” aims at creating dialogue between eminent scholars, institutions and pedagogic systems on coloniality of languages in India and the transformative role multilingual pedagogy can play in the academic life of students from the marginalized communities. It encourages dialogue on how higher education could be accessed better if mediational barriers are minimized linguistically, cognitively and intersubjectively. Speakers from five different universities – JNU, AUD, Askoka, Azim Premji and Delhi University – are presenting their hitherto used pedagogic practices and are discussing what kind of language-in-education policy the higher education institutes need for transforming the pedagogic space into a more inclusive one. 

 

Session 1

9:45 am     Welcome Address by the Vice Chancellor Professor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit

10:00 am    Decolonising Higher Education: Multilingual Pedagogy and Epistemic Justice
    Professor Minati Panda, JNU

10:30 am    Multilingualism and transforming the pedagogic space of the Universities
Professor Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Delhi University

 

Session 2

Chair :     Asha Sarangi

11:00 am    Multilingual Pedagogies for Equity and Inclusion: Some Initiatives at Azim Premji University
A Giridhar Rao, Azim Premji University

11:30 am    Languages in higher education - Why, whose and how?
Shivani Nag, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University

 

Session 3

12:00 pm    Round Table 1
From school to college: Reproduction of linguistic inequality

Chair: Parimala V. Rao

Sruthi Ranjani - Masters in Learning Sciences, University of Paris
Vrinda Bhatia - PhD scholar, ZHCES, JNU
Garima Dalal, Linguistic Empowerment Cell, JNU

 


Lunch: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

 

Session 4

Chair: Professor Saumen Chattopadhyay

2:00 pm    Can the Communicative and the Cognitive Converge?: A Look at the Ashoka University’s English Language Teaching Programme
Jyotirmoy, Ashoka University

2:30 pm    Teaching Social Sciences Multilingually in Contemporary Times
Asha Sarangi, JNU

3:00 pm    Coloniality of Power, Language and Education
Papia Sengupta, JNU

4:00 – 5:30 pm Round Table 2

Listening and Talking to Students in Higher Education Classrooms

 

Session 5

Chair: Suresh Babu

Uday Kumar, JNU
Maninder Thakur, JNU
Suneeta Mishra, DU

 

Vote of Thanks
 

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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.

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