[MLE] National Seminar on Language Education, Chhattisgarh


Dear MultiLingual Education Friends,

The report on the  National Seminar on Language Education  has come out . The seminar was  organized  jointly by the SCERT and IFIG  at 21-23  February,  2014  at Raipur  Chhattisgarh with Dr Mahendra Mishra as convenor. The three main issues addressed at this seminar are stated as follows:      
  1. How multilinguality is a reality and how our schools are unable to ensure the linguistic rights of the children.
  2. How language of the text book is teacher-centric and unable to represent the meaning of the texts in a language that is not understood by the children.
  3. How education can  be imparted  –  as far as practicable to those children who are linguistic minority,  and  equally  be  able  to  maintain equal  competencies  in  many  languages  like Hindi and English based on their mother tongue.
Experts in the area of multilingualism and multilingual education like Prof. D P Pattanayak, Prof Ramakant Agnihotri,  Prof. Rajesh Sachdeva, Prof. Minati Panda presented papers and contributed to the discussions. Even though it was a national seminar, there was a special emphasis on the host state Chhattisgarh. Some of the listed outcomes for this state are:               
  • Preparation of report on linguistic survey as it was already done in 2008 by SCERT but not in a report  form
  • Reform of curriculum, based on children’s language, knowledge and revise text book.
  • Strengthening  of  TEG  (Teacher  Educator  Group)  about  300  teachers,  to  explore conceptual knowledge of teachers.
  • Policy documents on language in Chhattisgarh.
  • Recruitments  of  teacher’s  policy  based  on  availability  of  language  teachers  in  tribal areas           
  • More 2-3 conceptual seminars will be organise on language at different areas.
Particular those with an interest in the state of Chhattisgarh should take an effort to read this 52 page report which gives a rich overview of the discussions and deliberations during this 3 day seminar.

Regards,
Karsten

PS IFIG is the  "ICICI  Foundation  for Inclusive Growth"

            
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Karsten van Riezen
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