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Utilise the transformative power of education to create equitable and sustainable societies.


 

Education plays a key role in achieving sustainable development goals and can drive transformative changes leading to environmentally and socially just societies. Key stakeholders involved in constructing inclusive, equitable, and empowered learning environments prepare individuals and communities for a rapidly changing world. This course, ‘Reimagining Education for Equity’, examines and problematises the role of education in sustaining social inequalities and then deliberates on how education can be transformed to create empowered teachers and students towards attaining an equitable, just, and sustainable future. The course derives from a four-year, four-country research programme on ‘Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures’ or TESF. It is led by Professor Poonam Batra, a TESF co-investigator and one of India’s leading academics with four decades of interdisciplinary experience across India’s elementary, teacher, and higher education practise and policy. The purpose of the course is to provide practising teachers, student-teachers, the larger teacher education and policy community, and other stakeholders interested in education with access to TESF research and examples of transformational education.

 

Module 1: Education Aims, Policy, and Teachers

This module provides an introduction to the development of the education system using India as an example. The module follows the transformation of the education system from colonial India to independent India and the continued impact of policy trajectories on schools and teacher education. Additionally, the module emphasises the crucial role of teachers in improving education quality, reflecting on how their positions have evolved, the challenges they have faced, and their pivotal role in implementing educational reforms and creating effective learning environments.

Duration: 2 hours
Readings: 1
Videos: 4
Discussion Prompts: 2

 

Module 2: Childhood, Child, Curriculum, and Pedagogy

This module develops valuable insights into the evolution of the concept of childhood and its significance in shaping school curricula and pedagogy. It explores how historical and cultural perspectives on childhood have influenced educational practices and the design of learning experiences. Moreover, the module explores education acts to explain how legislations aim to address and fulfil children’s rights in diverse and stratified societies. The module underscores the critical need of upholding children’s rights and protecting their well-being.

Duration: 3 hours
Readings: 1
Videos: 6
Discussion Prompts: 3

 

Module 3: Teachers, Curriculum, and Pedagogy

This module emphasises the recognition of children as epistemic entities, acknowledging their ability to contribute valuable knowledge and perspectives. It underscores the importance of fostering children’s voice and agency, empowering them to reach their full potential. Engaging with this module develops the skills and attitudes necessary to appreciate the rich diversity of children’s backgrounds and experiences. Furthermore, it integrates these lived experiences into the teaching-learning process, ensuring that education is more inclusive and responsive to the unique needs of each child.

Duration: 3 hours
Readings: 1
Videos: 7
Discussion Prompts: 3

 

Module 4: Education and Inclusion

This module develops tools and capacities to understand, engage with, and integrate diverse lived experiences of students in the teaching and learning process. It enables an understanding of how formal schooling processes, communities, and larger social and political contexts facilitate or hinder the inclusion of children in classrooms. Additionally, it also engages with ideas of decolonising school curriculum as part of a wider project of ‘decoloniality’, which implies dismantling relations of power and conceptions of knowledge that tend to reproduce hierarchies based on caste, gender, community, and region.

Duration: 3 hours
Readings: 1
Videos: 8
Discussion Prompts: 3

 

Module 5: Gender, School, and Society

This module provides an opportunity to deeply reflect on the complex and profound ways that socio-cultural structures such as class, caste, and community influence gender dynamics. It explores how these factors contribute to gender inequalities and how they manifest within educational settings. Engaging with this content provides insights into how classroom pedagogy can be reimagined to help teachers become more sensitive and socially responsive to the disparities in gender experiences. This reflective process aims to empower teachers to enact changes that support gender equity and enhance the educational experience for all students.

Duration: 3 hours
Readings: 1
Videos: 6
Discussion Prompts: 3

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