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NIRMAN

November 2020
 
Education · Research · Arts
Dear readers,

Thank you for participating in NIRMAN Lectures on The Politics of Childhood on 5th and 6th November.
We hope that you found the ideas and questions explored valuable and you may use them for further dialogue with more educators.  Your interaction and questions always make the lectures more enriching for us too! We are excited to organize these webinars monthly and explore this new format of online micro-events with you. 

In this email, we are sharing our recordings, notes and recommended reading and film viewing lists with you. 

We request you to fill out the feedback form and tell us what you think about these lectures too!
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Sharing lecture recordings and notes
Lecture 1:
How the History of India has shaped our understanding of the child

Was live on 5th November 2020
How the history of India has shaped our understanding of the child by Nita Kumar | NIRMAN Lectures
Even though in principle we know that childhood is a concept that has varied over time and in different societies, we are still shocked at ideas about childhood that challenge our mainstream middle-class educated ones. This talk is an attempt to give a context to how our present ideas today are vitally linked to India's history and search for modernity.
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SUGGESTED LIST OF FILMS ON CHILDREN
Lecture 2:
How the Hinduism has shaped our understanding of the child

Was live on 6th November 2020
Our ideas about the child and childhood belong to a folk culture, including for the most educated and rationalist of us. They are not, Prof. Kumar argues in this lecture, 'scientific', and on the contrary, go unexamined. Prof. Kumar shares her extensive research on the idea of the child in India, specifically in Hindu culture and society, and what it means for modern-day Indians.
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RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Our speaker for NIRMAN Lectures
Prof. Nita Kumar completed her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in History and has taught at the University of Chicago, Brown University and the University of Michigan amongst other places. She recently retired from the Brown Family Chair of South Asian History at Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California. 

She is also the Founder and Director of NIRMAN, a Varanasi-based not-for-profit that works for the arts and education. For the past 30 years, she has taught, written curricula, trained teachers and worked on children's books and arts, at NIRMAN. She has worked with and written about weavers' children, working-class women and rural families in multiple books and research papers. 

Prof. Kumar has presented her research on education, democracy, modernity and children in India at numerous places, and continues to do so. You can read more about her thoughts on arts, education and research on her blog here.
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