Teaching Divided Histories is an innovative 3-year project developed by Nerve-Centre [Derry-LondonDerry] and funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the Peace III programme. Teaching Divided Histories – International partnerships A new curriculum-linked approach that explores the potential of Digital Media for in-school learning and practices. The key aim of this project is to…
January–February 2014 When Apeejay School, Park Street, signed up for the PeaceWorks literature curriculum, not once did I imagine that I would be the one addressing forty class niners. As the day finally arrived, I was set with multiple copies of Elias Canetti’s vignettes and a very nervous mind with random words tumbling around. The…
It is not everyday that teachers play icebreakers or are divided into groups or given classroom assignments or made to participate in discussions. However, attending a PeaceWorks workshop will make them do all of that and much more. PeaceWorks—an initiative of the Seagull Foundation of the Arts has been working on creating a module as…
Neither a free period nor an English class When I began my sessions on the PeaceWorks School Curriculum at Vidyanjali School, the students had asked if they should consider my sessions as free periods where they could have fun or as a ‘regular English class’. Neither, I told them, trying hard not to…
Being a student of literature for the longest period of time, the idea of facilitating the PeaceWorks Literature Curriculum (PWSC) in National High School was thrilling. Could I initiate a series of discussions on identity, gender and human rights with the help of literary pieces? I wondered. I was nervous as I hadn’t done this…
