Why Teach India: Caste and its Controversies
Sponsored by Phillips Academy Andover and the Winsor School
Hosted by the South Asia Institute of Harvard University
EFTI is hosting the second secondary school conference on teaching India. The conference will feature a keynote address from Yale University History Professor Mridu Rai, as well as workshops by scholars of Indian literature, history, politics and culture. Additionally, the conference will offer sessions on the pedagogy of teaching India in both public and private school classrooms. Led by a group of interdisciplinary educators currently teaching India, these workshops focus on the “how” of teaching such an ancient, diverse, and complex civilization in the secondary school classroom.
The conference registration fee is $60.
KEYNOTE
Mridu Rai is associate professor of history at Yale. She was educated at Delhi University, the Centre for Historical Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and Columbia University, where she received her Ph.D. in modern south Asian history. Professor Rai’s own research interests encompass the relationships among caste, territory, region and nation as they evolved from the period of British colonial rule into the postcolonial era. She is the author of Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects – Islam, Rights and the History of Kashmir(Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004).
WORKSHOPS
Seminars this year will explore the notion of caste, the teaching of India and in India from several viewpoints. All will provide hands-on classroom materials for use at the secondary level:
Ancient Origins of Caste, Brian Didier
Caste in Literature, Patricia Lothrop and Indu Chugani
The Caste Controversy: Gandhi, Ambedkar and the Constitution, to be confirmed
Caste and Colonialism, to be confirmed
Caste and Contemporary Politics, to be confirmed
Service Learning, Purnima Vadhera
For questions about the 2010 conference, email info@teachingindia.org.
Educators for Teaching India is an organization that seeks to create dialogue about and enhance the teaching of India in public and private schools. The organization believes that curricular and pedagogical innovation is at the heart of presenting India's complexity to students with accuracy and nuance. Its members are K-12 teachers from a wide variety of disciplines who teach or are interested in developing courses and/or units on India.
See the photo gallery from the 2009 conference.
Educators for Teaching India (EFTI) presented "Why Teach India?Incorporating India into Secondary Curricula" on April 3rd, 2009 at the
South Asia Institute at Harvard University. Over 90 educators from across
the country attended this first of its kind conference... (MORE)
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