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Our speaker for NIRMAN Lectures
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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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UPCOMING
NIRMAN WORKSHOPS
25th and 26th February
PRESCHOOL EDUCATION IN INDIA:
CONTEXT, PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS
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We are happy to organize NIRMAN Workshops introducing the practical elements of parenting, teaching and learning. We invite you to participate in our workshops to learn about the world of children, how they learn and to engage in discussions about classroom experiences.
The details of the workshops are as follows: |
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Note: The lectures will be conducted on Google Meet.
Participation on both days is mandatory.
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Please inform us of your payment details by emailing at riya@nirman.info or sending us the screenshot of the transaction on 8779583473. Once we receive the payment details we will send you the registration confirmation for the workshop.
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We hope you find the available resources useful and forward to seeing your participation in upcoming events!
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