<div dir="ltr">Dear Guru,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for that comment. Henceforth I will be careful in my terminology. </div><div><br></div><div>I forgot to mention in my earlier email.</div><div>I am in the process of exploring collaboration with a public library (warangal) in my area to support out of school learning.</div><div>Will keep the group posted on the development. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Ekta</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 6:08 AM Guru <<a href="mailto:Guru@itforchange.net">Guru@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>thanks Ekta,</p>
<p>One incidental comment.</p>
<p>The term 'affordable school' is antithetical to the idea of
education as a fundamental right of children. Both 'affordable'
and 'low cost' private school seem to suggest that the model is
desirable. Language fashions our thinking and I personally prefer
the term 'poor private school'. <br>
</p>
<div>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;font-weight:normal;line-height:140%">
</p>
regards,</div>
<div>Guru<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>On 17/08/22 15:40, Ekta Singla wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">Dear Anusha, Ranjani and Venita,
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I would have really liked to attend, however, the time is
not suitable for me.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Instead to get the conversation going on the important
questions raised in the shared document, please find my
thoughts below.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><b>Background</b></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I conducted fieldwork (as part of my PhD) with multilingual
(Telugu, English, Hindi, Dakhni) children (class 6th) in
Warangal, Telangana ages 9-12 in an affordable private school.
Children in these classrooms identified themselves as Muslims,
Hindu, Christians. Identity of caste and class were also used
by the school administration.</div>
<div><u><br>
</u></div>
<div><u>Focus</u>: </div>
<div>
<ul>
<li>To identify adolescents' literacy practices inside and
outside school among family, peers and other spaces that
children visit. </li>
</ul>
<div><b>Findings</b></div>
</div>
<div>
<ol>
<li>Marginalised (SC/ST/OBCs) children with access to peers
from privileged backgrounds in the neighbourhood have had
some access to literacy practices. This includes reading
text (on-academic) online on games, YouTube, example
-Minecraft. </li>
<li>In addition, children with access to religious
institutions (like church, Madarsa) have had access to
reading, writing and group work in religious text</li>
<li>A number of children from all backgrounds have engaged
in varied activities (that involved reading, writing and
alternate understanding of numeracy) through phones with
family members, peers and in some cases older siblings.</li>
<li>Children also have access to public libraries, other
books made available by parents and family members at
home. In some cases, older siblings have actively engaged
in teaching younger ones. </li>
</ol>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><b>Implications for Education Support Group</b></div>
<div><b><br>
</b></div>
<div>1. The 'idea of learning loss' is a myth. There is no doubt
that school as a space is enriching with teachers' input and
that of peers. However, 'learning loss in itself is a myth'.
Parents, family members and children themselves from all
backgrounds have been concerned about learning during the
lockdown period and have devised alternate means to support
learning. This learning needs to be acknowledged and
supported.</div>
<div>2<b>. </b>We need to see learning in a broader context,
outside the school and understand alternate means of learning
that children and community have devised during this time.</div>
<div>3. In many cases, school as a space is unable to provide a
critical context especially for children from
marginalised backgrounds, these out of school context in that
case can be critical to support children.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><b>Suggestions for Focus of ESG for next few 3 months</b></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>1. Document alternate literacy communities and practices of
children outside school context</div>
<div>Some examples from my data include, google maps to
measure distances of buildings in local areas, Youtube videos
to cook, make origami as well as draw different kinds of
objects from google images. We perhaps need to understand
children's engagement with technology (limited access to
devices and internet) better. <br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>2. Find ways to support children's learning outside the
school. </div>
<div>Example, in case of access to public libraries: workshops
on storytelling, science related exploratory workshops, among
others</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>3. For adolescents especially, find ways to engage them in
planning these workshops and provide leadership roles. </div>
<div> <br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thanks!</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Ekta</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><b><br>
</b></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div><br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 12:38
PM Poornima Arun <<a href="mailto:poornima.arun12@gmail.com" target="_blank">poornima.arun12@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Thank u will be there.</div>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 12, 2022,
13:30 Anusha S <<a href="mailto:anusha.sharma@itforchange.net" target="_blank">anusha.sharma@itforchange.net</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<p>Dear all, <br>
</p>
<p>Hope you've received our email regarding the meeting
of the education support group on <b>17th August
between 5 and 6:30 PM</b>. <br>
</p>
<p>To enable us to capture the breadth of work by all of
us, we thought it might be a good idea if we can all
share some details/ideas prior to the meeting. For
this, we have created a short <a href="https://forms.gle/JbPtpb6Eirdxwi467" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Google form</a> with some
questions about how the school resumption has been in
your region/state. We request you to take a few
minutes to fill this in and share. The form can be
filled in any language.<br>
<br>
Looking forward to hearing from you and seeing you all
on the 17th.<br>
</p>
<p>The meeting link is - <a href="https://b3.teacher-network.in/b/gur-g94-hyn" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://b3.teacher-network.in/b/gur-g94-hyn</a></p>
<p>Best regards,<br>
Anusha, Ranjani and Venita</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<div>On 07/08/22 22:17, Sriranjani Ranganathan wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">
<div>Dear friends,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>It is a little over a year from the time we
formed this group to support the educational
recovery process. One of the primary objectives of
the ESG was to create and curate a resource
repository of resources to support school
education departments in school reopening. <br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Across the country, schools have now reopened
and different state education departments have
begun different initiatives to resume education
after the disruption. While there is an
acknowledgement of the learning gaps for children,
there are not many models of how to address these
gaps; it is clear that interventions are required
on several fronts to support schools and children
and communities. We thought it would be a good
idea to regroup and look at some of the ways in
which this group can support the process of
educational recovery.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Attached is a brief note that describes the
context and some ideas / areas to work on. To
discuss these as well as other ideas, as well as
define ways of <br>
</div>
<div>taking this work forward, we would like to
convene a virtual meeting of all the members on
August 17<sup>th</sup> (Wednesday) between 5.00
and 6.30 pm. We hope you will all be able to make
it. The link for the meeting is <a href="https://b3.teacher-network.in/b/gur-g94-hyn" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://b3.teacher-network.in/b/gur-g94-hyn</a></div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Looking forward to meeting all of you.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Best wishes and regards,</div>
<div>Anusha, Ranjani and Venita</div>
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