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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

[MTC Global] Academic Imperialism & Decolonising Universities

Dear Satishji,

Greetings!  Thank you for connecting with this series of talks!

I am enjoy these talks by Claude from Goa!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Alvares


Decolonising Universities - Claude Alvares
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXcJMblF5B8

Excerpt from the presentation of Claude Alvares, Coordinator of Multiversity and Director of the Goa Foundation in India, during Session Ten at the Multiversity International Conference on Decolonising Our Universities held in Penang, Malaysia, 27-29 June 2011. He provided an overview of 'Alternatives to Current (Ancient) University Pedagogy,' questioning the usefulness and effectiveness of conventional university teaching methods based on lecturing, textbooks and compulsory attendance, asking 'does anybody anywhere learn anything under compulsion?'


Academic Imperialism - Claude Alvares
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cySj7da5fB0

I am also remined here to provide you the link to the TED Talk by Bunker Roy, Founder of Barefoot College!

"The Barefoot Professionals of Tilonia" by the founder Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker_Roy) with elaborations about ... 'problem solving puppets' made out of 'recycled World Bank reports' and about many, many other important things is at:

Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qqqVwM6bMM

"In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works."






On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Madan Thangavelu <madan.thangavelu1@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you for sharing!




On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Satish Oberoi <oberoi50@yahoo.com> wrote:



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Dr CK Raju speaks at an International Conference at Tehran's Al Zahra university on Academic Imperialism and points to the fact that much of "western" science was based on borrowings from the East which were often misunderstood or distorted.

 
Dr C K Raju talks about Academic Imperialism
 
 
G Kumar
 
 

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