Thinking about Education
Apply by 30th August, 2021
A 12 week certificate course in Education
The course Thinking About Education is founded on the belief of ‘wholeness’ of education. It will help participants to reflect on their ideas about education, they would have been forming from through hear-say, and their own interpretations of their experiences. Through a deliberate analysis of issues in school education this course tries to show that different aspects of education are interrelated and that it is crucial to visualize the entire picture of education for working in the field. For example : Is it important for someone teaching science pedagogy to teachers to understand the relationship between democracy and education? Or Should a mathematics teacher reflect on the purpose of educating a human being at all? Or Should history teachers care about the nature of science and its importance? The underlying idea is that without understanding the relationships of parts of education with the whole but merely knowing the fragments may not be of great help. After all, none of the seven blind men could actually know the elephant itself. This course gives a glimpse of the larger picture of the current scenario of school education, challenges in students’ learning, current policy discourse and some basic theoretical tools to make sense of everyday classroom experiences.
Objectives
- To help acquire a larger picture of where the entire school education stands today – its current direction, major learning problems of the students and the major factors affecting it as well as system’s approaches towards achieving educational aims and policy expectations.
- To get acquainted with the vision and major recommendations of NEP 2020 with special focus on School Education, and its criticism.
- To think collectively with the help of a theoretical framework and learn how to look at our practice, work or interventional projects to deepen our efforts to improve the quality of school education.
Who is it for?
The ‘Thinking about Education’ is for anyone who is teaching, or who would like to teach, or help teachers in any subject and any context – be it at school, at home or in the workplace. The course is for practitioners in education, who are interested in an initial acquaintance with the larger picture of education.
Content and Pedagogy
The course content will be in easy and accessible language minimizing technical jargon. Offline or self-study reading materials will be given to participants before the sessions. The key ideas in the given reading material will be discussed in the online sessions. The online sessions will build upon participants’ reflections and collective discussion while using foundational concepts in education. The focus will be to enable the participants to articulate their experiences of everyday educational process at various levels and making sense of them.
For enrolment it is necessary to deposit Rs.5000 for participation without certificate and Rs.7000 for participation with certificate in the account given here and upload the confirmation document (payment receipt) of the deposit.
