Pedagogy workshop for the teachers of women’s studies concludes
ALIGARH : The Advanced Centre for Women’s Studies, Aligarh Muslim University organized a two-day “Pedagogy Workshop”, in collaboration with the Indian Association for Women’s Studies (IAWS).
In her presidential remarks, Prof Azra Musavi, Director of the centre, while highlighting the objective of the workshop, said that the main thrust was to create awareness and sensitize the participants about the teaching and learning processes that guide choices of classroom practices. She also described what education should be like.
Prof Shadab Bano, Joint Secretary of the Indian Association of Women’s Studies and coordinator of the IAWS Northern Regional Committee said that the workshop was aimed at discussing the pedagogical tools of women’s studies and enriching the knowledge of the teachers of women’s studies both within the classroom and in the field interactions.
Prof N Manimeakalai (Department of Women’s Studies, Bharthidasan University, Tamil Nadu) gave an insightful presentation on “Teaching Women’s Studies: Theory and Practice”.
Prof Indu Agnihotri (former Director, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi) threw light on the policies and implementation from time to time, emphasizing the need for data collection concerning women. She stressed the need to understand “Women’s movements and Women’s studies: Role and Relation in Framing Curriculum”. She said that in order to understand pedagogy, one should comb through data available on women. It depicts the policies for women and how far their implementation is successful.
She discussed the resolution on mainstreaming women’s studies.
Dr Poonam Kakoti Borah (Gauhati University, Assam) said that one of the main purposes of the workshop was to focus on the institutionalization of women’s studies. She highlighted the practices of women’s studies in classrooms.
Prof Manjit Bhatia (former faculty member, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Delhi) gave a detailed talk on the mainstreaming of women’s studies on campus.
Dr Niyati Krishna (Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Chandigarh) focused on the issues of interdisciplinarity and employability in women’s studies,
Dr Tarushikha Sarvesh (AMU) engaged the participants through a discussion on intersectionality, themes, and approaches which help in the production of knowledge in women’s studies.
Programme coordinator, Mr Sheeraz Ahmed introduced the resource persons. Dr. Tauseef Fatima extended the vote of thanks.
Faculty members and research scholars from various states, including Maharashtra, Assam, Kashmir, New Delhi and Rajasthan attended the workshop.