ZHCES organizes International Mother Language Day 2023

National Multilingual Education Resource Consortium (NMRC)
Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies
School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

(With financial support from Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute)

International Mother Language Day, 21 February 2023

Decolonising Higher Education: Multilingual Pedagogy and Epistemic Justice

Venue: Committee Room, SSS I, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Date: 21 February 2023

Convener: Minati Panda, Jawaharlal Nehru University

The seminar titled, "Decolonising Higher Education: Multilingual Pedagogy and Epistemic Justice" aims at creating dialogue between eminent scholars, institutions and pedagogic systems on coloniality of languages in India and the transformative role multilingual pedagogy can play in the academic life of students from the marginalized communities. It encourages dialogue on how higher education could be accessed better if mediational barriers are minimized linguistically, cognitively and intersubjectively. Speakers from five different universities – JNU, AUD, Askoka, Azim Premji and Delhi University – are presenting their hitherto used pedagogic practices and are discussing what kind of language-in-education policy the higher education institutes need for transforming the pedagogic space into a more inclusive one. 

 

Session 1

9:45 am     Welcome Address by the Vice Chancellor Professor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit

10:00 am    Decolonising Higher Education: Multilingual Pedagogy and Epistemic Justice | Minati Panda, JNU

10:30 am    Multilingualism and transforming the pedagogic space of the Universities | Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Delhi University

Session 2

Chair :     Asha Sarangi

11:00 am    Multilingual Pedagogies for Equity and Inclusion: Some Initiatives at Azim Premji University | A Giridhar Rao, Azim Premji University

11:30 am    Languages in Higher Education: Why, whose and how? | Shivani Nag, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University

Session 3

12:00 pm    Round Table 1: From school to college: Reproduction of linguistic inequality

Chair: Parimala V. Rao

• Sruthi Ranjani, Masters in Learning Sciences, University of Paris; Vrinda Bhatia, PhD scholar, ZHCES, JNU; Garima Dalal, Linguistic Empowerment Cell, JNU

Session 4

Chair: Saumen Chattopadhyay

2:00 pm    Can the Communicative and the Cognitive Converge?: A Look at the Ashoka University's English Language Teaching Programme
Jyotirmoy, Ashoka University

2:30 pm    Teaching Social Sciences Multilingually in Contemporary Times | Asha Sarangi, JNU

3:00 pm    Coloniality of Power, Language and Education | Papia Sengupta, JNU

Session 5

4:00 – 5:30 pm Round Table 2: Listening and Talking to Students in Higher Education Classrooms

Chair: Suresh Babu

• Uday Kumar, JNU; Maninder Thakur, JNU; Suneeta Mishra, DU