Education

Prof Janaki Rajan, Hony. Director, Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, is the coordinator for the South Asian Women’s Network on Education.

Coordinator’s Report for the South Asian Women’s Network on Education

The group agreed to centre collaborations around two inter-connected strands of gender and diversity in education, gender itself being one of the core diversities. Around these strands, the following activities are envisaged:

1.Student and Faculty of Education Exchanges, paln to be co-ordinated by Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi ("Janaki Rajan" janakirajan1@rediffmail.com), Aga Khan University - Institute for Educational Development, Karachi. ("qamar.safdar" qamar.safdar@aku.edu), and University of Kelaniya
Dalugama, Sri Lanka ("Dr. Maithree Wickramasinghe" mkwickramasinghe@gmail.com) and Dr. Selvi Thiruchandran ("selvy" <selvy@sltnet.lk>).

2.Training on Gender Mainstreaming of Education in collaboration with Association of Commonwealth Universities to be co-ordinated by “Maithree Wickramasinghe" mkwickramasinghe@gmail.com

3.Establishing a South Asia Library Resource Network for Women and Children’s Literature to be co-ordinated by Katha:(”Geeta Dharmarajan”geeta@katha.org)

4.Establishing a South Asian Learning To Live Together Network to be co-ordinated by Ms. Razia Ismail, Women’s Coalition Trust,(”Razia Ismail” “iacrindia@yahoo.com).

5.Cross-country Research:
  - Literature Review from the perspective of Feminist Research Methodology
  - Teacher Education Curricula
  - National Curricular Frameworks and Text materials
  - Women and Girl child rights

6.On-line Joint Degree/Certificate Programme on South Asian Women Studies

7.Information and Ideas exchange through e-secretariat

The group will mark December 8 as the Girl Child Day

The members of the South Asian Women’s Network on Education are :

Coordinator : Professor Janaki Rajan, Hony Director, Sarojini Naidu Centre for Women’s Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia.