[Core] NCEE statement on the textbook revision in Karnataka

[Guru]

Final statement released to press (In English and in Kannada). Request 
all to share with your own networks/media networks and also tweet about 
it today

Statement is also on 
https://educationemergency.net/2022/06/textbook-revision-an-unnecessary-divisive-and-costly-exercise/

regards,
Guru


On 02/06/22 11:02, Guru wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Revised statement post incorporation of comments received.  Let us 
> know if there is any modification you think needed. Thank to those who 
> provided solicited comments.
>
> regards,
> Guru
>
>
> On 31/05/22 14:33, Guru wrote:
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> As you may be aware, Karnataka government setup a committee to revise 
>> textbooks last year and the committee has dropped chapters of 
>> progressive writers/ on progressive ideas (Lankesh, Ramakrishnan, 
>> Periyar, Narayana Guru) including chapters on caste in society. This 
>> revision process has also lead to a delay in printing and 
>> distribution of textbooks, though schools opened two weeks ago (from 
>> May 16), many textbooks are still not available in the schools.
>>
>> A few of us have drafted a statement from the NCEE on this issue. We 
>> request your review on this statement and feedback by end of June 2, 
>> based on which we can review/revise/finalize and issue. In our last 
>> meeting on 28 May we discussed the need for NCEE to speak up in cases 
>> where we see active discrimination, on religious/caste/gender 
>> grounds, which also further aggravates the education emergency.
>>
>> I have also provided a few newspaper articles on this topic which 
>> provides some data for our statement, for reference. We will also 
>> seek specific endorsements and comments from educators to share with 
>> the statement to get wider publicity.
>>
>> Look forward to your responses.
>>
>> thanks and regards
>> Guru
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://educationemergency.net/pipermail/core_educationemergency.net/attachments/20220602/8c2dbf38/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Statement on textbook revision NCEE 02.06.22.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 55336 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://educationemergency.net/pipermail/core_educationemergency.net/attachments/20220602/8c2dbf38/attachment-0002.pdf>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Statement on textbook revision NCEE 02.06.22.odt
Type: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
Size: 28778 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://educationemergency.net/pipermail/core_educationemergency.net/attachments/20220602/8c2dbf38/attachment-0002.odt>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Kannada_Statement on textbook revision NCEE 02.06.22.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 106031 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://educationemergency.net/pipermail/core_educationemergency.net/attachments/20220602/8c2dbf38/attachment-0003.pdf>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Kannada_Statement on textbook revision NCEE 02.06.22.odt
Type: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
Size: 31289 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://educationemergency.net/pipermail/core_educationemergency.net/attachments/20220602/8c2dbf38/attachment-0003.odt>