Khoj Sessions
OBJECTIVES
Course Objectives & Outcomes
Demonstrating that learning can be fun when students are treated as thinking, feeling, active participants, rather than passive recipients, in the learning process.
Extending KHOJ's innovative educational modules evolved and well-received over 19 years, to more and more students from varied, under-privileged sections of society in schools run by municipal/zilla parishad bodies all over India.
Teaching Tolerance', 'Breathing Concepts like Equality and Non-discrimination', 'Celebrating Diversity' through lively discussions and debate in a friendly environment where students learn to appreciate and respect different points of view.
Creating an Enthusiastic and Modern band of Teachers from all over Maharashtra committed to India's Constitutional Ethos and Fundamental Values through organised teacher-training and community-outreach workshops aimed at replication of the KHOJ model.
SESSIONS
Session
01
Self Portrait
To enter the emotional world of the child
Locate: Questions & Conflicts in their minds.
- Is beating the only way to get children to listen?
- Can India & Pakistan ever be friends?
- Why are girls and boys treated differently?
Session
02
Problem Solving
After individual responses to the self-portrait session have been collected –this session can go on for two one-hour sessions–the KHOJ animator reads every response in detail.
Session
03 & 04
History of Mumbai, Mine & Others
- When Amma was a little girl
- When Dadi bought her first book
- What did Abba wear when he went to school?
- Stories of our childhood are so much part of the intimate learning process at home
- Can they become a part of our classroom?
Session
05 & 06
MY GOD, RELIGION
Children express through letters, poems, and drawings their relationship with their God. Introduction to a brief ‘History of Religion’
Session
07
Festivals of India
Project work on Festivals of India and how they reflect India’s diversity
Session
08
Story lines to discuss complex Social Situations
Injustice to the girl child
Life decisions: Marriage or Career
Equality and Justice
Session
09
Child Rights
Children’s Charter of Rights Human Rights
Session
10
CHILD LABOUR
Child Labour within South Asia and the World and its implications
Session
11
The concept of South Asia
Our neighbours, our climates, our common problems, some differences.
Session
12
Dates in History
How to understand dates in history.
Session
13
Resources & Environmental Damage
- How I take care of my locality, my city,
my country. - Civic Sense & Responsibility
Session
14
CITIES – THEN & NOW
- Cities as systems of social organisation
- Ancient and modern cities
- Brief History of the evolution of urban centres.