Imaginative Reading, Creative Writing Winter School 2010-IIT Kharagpur
MHRD/AICTE Sponsored Summer School Imaginative Reading, Creative Writing: Language, Literature and the Teacher-Winter School is going to be organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for the year 2010
One of the pitfalls of our present day education system is its undue emphasis on cognitive modes of organising knowledge. Such a cognitive leaning and orientation towards knowledge runs the risk of destroying the imaginative and the creative roots of life as a result of which the student ceases to show interest in the formulation and exploration of life’s emotions and experiences. By focussing on Reading and Writing – the two advanced skills of language learning – and sprinkling upon these skills some colouring of imagination and creativity, the proposed winter school tries to redress the loophole present in our education system. By sensitizing teachers towards the magic potentials of Imaginative Reading and Creative Writing, this training programme aims at enabling them to appreciate, politically as well as aesthetically, the world of literature and culture. In this context it is prudent to remember the simple but a well-established axiom that language, in its literary manifestation, provides a vital and lively means for engaging teachers and students in transformative learning. It is in order to sensitise students and teacher towards this dimension of learning that this theme is proposed for the MHRD/AICTE sponsored winter school.
Date:
February 1-7, 2010
Venue:
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Source:
http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/news/showannouncedescr.php?newsid=415
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