[Educationsupport] Meeting of the Education Support Group on August 17th (Wednesday) from 5.00 - 6.30 pm

Fri Aug 19 20:21:05 IST 2022

Dear Guru,

Thanks for that comment. Henceforth I will be careful in my terminology.

I forgot to mention in my earlier email.
I am in the process of exploring collaboration with a public library
(warangal) in my area to support out of school learning.
Will keep the group posted on the development.

Regards,
Ekta

On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 6:08 AM Guru <Guru at itforchange.net> wrote:

> thanks Ekta,
>
> One incidental comment.
>
> 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'.
>
> regards,
> Guru
>
> On 17/08/22 15:40, Ekta Singla wrote:
>
> Dear Anusha, Ranjani and Venita,
>
> I would have really liked to attend, however, the time is not suitable for
> me.
>
> Instead to get the conversation going on the important questions raised in
> the shared document, please find my thoughts below.
>
> *Background*
>
> 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.
>
> *Focus*:
>
>    - To identify adolescents' literacy practices inside and outside
>    school among family, peers and other spaces that children visit.
>
> *Findings*
>
>    1. 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.
>    2. In addition, children with access to religious institutions (like
>    church, Madarsa) have had access to reading, writing and group work in
>    religious text
>    3. 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.
>    4. 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.
>
>
> *Implications for Education Support Group*
>
> 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.
> 2*. *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.
> 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.
>
> *Suggestions for Focus of ESG for next few 3 months*
>
> 1. Document alternate literacy communities and practices of children
> outside school context
> 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.
>
> 2. Find ways to support children's learning outside the school.
> Example, in case of access to public libraries: workshops on storytelling,
> science related exploratory workshops, among others
>
> 3. For adolescents especially, find ways to engage them in planning these
> workshops and provide leadership roles.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ekta
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 12:38 PM Poornima Arun <poornima.arun12 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank u will be there.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 13:30 Anusha S <anusha.sharma at itforchange.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Hope you've received our email regarding the meeting of the education
>>> support group on *17th August between 5 and 6:30 PM*.
>>>
>>> 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 Google form
>>> <https://forms.gle/JbPtpb6Eirdxwi467> 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.
>>>
>>> Looking forward to hearing from you and seeing you all on the 17th.
>>>
>>> The meeting link is - https://b3.teacher-network.in/b/gur-g94-hyn
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Anusha, Ranjani and Venita
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/08/22 22:17, Sriranjani Ranganathan wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear friends,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>> taking this work forward, we would like to convene a virtual meeting of
>>> all the members on August 17th (Wednesday) between 5.00 and 6.30 pm. We
>>> hope you will all be able to make it. The link for the meeting is
>>> https://b3.teacher-network.in/b/gur-g94-hyn
>>>
>>> Looking forward to meeting all of you.
>>>
>>> Best wishes and regards,
>>> Anusha, Ranjani and Venita
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> *Anusha S*
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