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ZHCES organises a seminar on the Draft of the New Education Policy 2019

ZHCES organises a seminar on the Draft of the New Education Policy 2019

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Monday, 29 July 2019

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Monday, 29 July 2019

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ZHCES organises a seminar on the Draft of the New Education Policy 2019

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Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies

School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Seminar on

The Draft of the New Education Policy 2019

Monday 29th July 2019

at Committee Room, Convention Centre, JNU

 

 Time

Theme

Panellists


9-00 am to 11-00 am

 

 

Welcome:  Prof Srinivasa Rao, Chairperson ZHCES

 

Introduction:

Prof S. Chattopadhyay Coordinator CAS, ZHCES

Draft NEP 2019: Context and Approach

Chair: Prof Karuna Chanana

 

Prof Deepak Kumar

Prof R.Govinda

11-00 am to 11-30 am            Tea

11-30 am to 1-00 pm

School Education: Early child care, Access to schooling, Teacher education

Chair: Prof Geetha B Nambissan

 

Prof Venita Kaul

Prof Nalini Juneja

Prof Poonam Batra

Ms  Sriti Ganguly

1-00 pm to 2-00 pm

Lunch

2-00 pm to 3-30 pm

Higher education: Governance, regulation and autonomy, privatisation, science and technology, research and training

Chair: Prof Arun Kumar

 

Prof Satish Deshpande

Prof Sudhanshu Bhushan

Prof Dhruv Raina

3-30 pm to 3-45 pm

Tea 

3-45 pm to 5-30 pm

Language, Liberal education, Equity concerns, Vocationalisation, Technology in education,

Chair: Prof Minati Panda

 

Dr Suresh Babu G. S.         

Dr Pradeep K Choudhury

Mr Joel Vergis

Ms Jagjit Kaur

Vote of thanks

 

5-30 pm

Tea

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.