Every year, PeaceWorks hosts international conferences on teaching history, as a part of the History for peace project. Each conference is well attended, with diverse voices and speakers from the field of academia, art, education and civil society. With all this input, we often wonder how it is being translated in the classroom. In other…
Taking off from our discussion at the South End Park centre, where the children drew and talked about what they liked as a part of an exercise about what they would like to hear stories about, we started off the session at the Alipore Nabadisha centre by talking about what the children don’t like. Garbage…
Apoorva and I volunteer at the Bhowanipore police station Nabadisha centre. We have been conducting sessions around the topics of gender identity, stereotypes, understanding of emotions, story building by showing pictures and story telling with morals. This activity that was conducted last Friday, helped the children to interact with each other, work together and build…
Sanjukta, the volunteer at Anandan, South End Park started off the session on 8 August with a fun game on creating animal sounds. Her ‘kids’ as she fondly calls them, made sounds of their favourite animals. They then moved on to talking about their favourite books-what they liked to read. Out of the 10…
Jana Natya Manch (Janam) spent an eventful few days in Calcutta. After two performances in schools, the group spent some time on 26 August with volunteers from the Share Stories Open Minds project and educators from the centres that the volunteers go to. They first performed Yeh Bhi Hinsa Hai—a play done in typical street…
