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Learning is Recovering: Towards a Pedagogy for Inclusion

Learning is Recovering: Towards a Pedagogy for Inclusion

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<strong>COLLOQUIUM of the Centre for the Study of Social Systems School of Social Sciences </strong> <strong>Learning is Recovering: Towards a Pedagogy for Inclusion</strong> by <strong>Dr. Alito Siqueira</strong> (University of Goa) <strong>on March 5, 2015 (Thursday) 2015</strong> <strong>Abstract:</strong> The national effort to increase the gross enrolment ratios has added complexity in the classroom, both in terms of bringing social diversity into it and adding numbers as well. Dull classrooms for both faculty and students and 'falling standards' are constant laments. Yet pedagogy has not received attention and is seen as independent and universal. This presentation discusses micro efforts at coping with this challenge: student-centred activities and discovering that 'voice' can stimulate engagement among some of them. Basic multi-media skills have encouraged the production of 'identity texts' and opened out possibilities for students to recover from hidden injuries in their social and personal backgrounds. The potential and purpose of such pedagogy was also a concern. Knowledge of the discipline and skills (instrumental or market value) must be accompanied with critical and creative learnings. More specifically and importantly, pedagogy must be able to help learners to engage and celebrate their differences with all their ambivalences and the tensions that these generate towards transforming their social and learner identities.The presentation is not framed within a theory. It is sensitive to linking pedagogy and politics within the flux of an ongoing micro effort. <strong>Bio:</strong> Alito Siqueira: ( b. 1955) spent his childhood in Nairobi. After schooling in India he worked with social movements and taught in a night school before joining for a Masters in Sociology at Mumbai University. He has been teaching Sociology at Goa University since 1987. Research on tourism, culture and development opened out into concerns with modernity, in particular, early modernity in Goa. He has presented papers in conferences and workshops and taught in Portugal. Being interested in the visual medium, he has participated actively in a film club. Over the last decade he has been involved in generating fora for knowledge production. As members of discriminated groups entered the University, a concern with knowledges among and of indigenous people has grown into an interest – both within and outside formal institutions

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.