Meet on multilingual education at MAHE from Sept 5
Representational Image MANIPAL: The Manipal Academy of Higher Education will host former education minister of Bhutan Thakur S Powdyel, as well as experts and academics from across India and Europe in a two-day conference on multilingual education in India which begins on Thursday. Powdyel will release the Kannada translation of his book ‘Nanna Parnishaale’.
Under Powdyel’s ministership from 2008 to 2013, Bhutan gained international recognition when it introduced the Gross National Happiness (GNH) curriculum as part of their school syllabus in 2009. Powdyel will touch upon the importance of the integrating content and language in school teaching practices. His book, whose English title is ‘My Green School’, has already been translated into Japanese.
The conference, organised by the CLIL@India project to promote content and language integrated learning (CLIL), will also see academicians, civil society members and in-service and pre-service teachers participate in lively discussions on language pedagogy.
Neeta Inamdar, principal coordinator of the project said: “The 2019 draft National Education Policy released by the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has placed special emphasis on multilingual education, advocating as many as four concurrently taught languages. Given the limited teaching resources available in India, an approach like CLIL helps navigate the thorny issue of the right medium of instruction in schools.”
The conference – co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union – will also be attended by Krishna Kothai, emeritus professor of Rural Studies, and will have resource persons from the University of Milan (Italy), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), Chitkara University (Punjab), Pondicherry University, Symbiosis International University (Pune).
Under Powdyel’s ministership from 2008 to 2013, Bhutan gained international recognition when it introduced the Gross National Happiness (GNH) curriculum as part of their school syllabus in 2009. Powdyel will touch upon the importance of the integrating content and language in school teaching practices. His book, whose English title is ‘My Green School’, has already been translated into Japanese.
The conference, organised by the CLIL@India project to promote content and language integrated learning (CLIL), will also see academicians, civil society members and in-service and pre-service teachers participate in lively discussions on language pedagogy.
Neeta Inamdar, principal coordinator of the project said: “The 2019 draft National Education Policy released by the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has placed special emphasis on multilingual education, advocating as many as four concurrently taught languages. Given the limited teaching resources available in India, an approach like CLIL helps navigate the thorny issue of the right medium of instruction in schools.”
The conference – co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union – will also be attended by Krishna Kothai, emeritus professor of Rural Studies, and will have resource persons from the University of Milan (Italy), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), Chitkara University (Punjab), Pondicherry University, Symbiosis International University (Pune).
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