Connecting the Curriculum with the Community
After meeting the elders of the community at the village administrator's office, I and my students started looking at ways in which we could reach out to the children of the village.
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After meeting the elders of the community at the village administrator's office, I and my students started looking at ways in which we could reach out to the children of the village.
The school children of the Htantaw village in the Taungthaman Village Tract were asked – What is the most beautiful place in Taungthaman? They could either draw pictures or describe in words. The children drew from their imagination and showed it to the students.
Snacks are important part of a community’s cultural heritage. We included this in our session and served traditional snacks like noe-hta-min or rice mixed with milk.
Dr. Thidar Htwe Win drew small engagement curriculum to foster value and connection of the local children with their locality. To do this, the school children were asked - "what are the most beautiful and valuable places for them in their village and around it." By asking this, we could draw out what the children unconsiously valued.
At first the children were too shy to speak in front of the crowd. We persuaded them with incentive of rewarding them with cute stickers. This helped them to become more engaged. We could even create a competitive environment among them.
What is the most beautiful thing or place in your village? The question asked was to the young school children from Taungthaman Village.
The first drawing is of U Pain Bridge and the second one of Taung Tha Man Thitsar.Many children also drew pictures of their grandparents, Kyauk Taw Gyi Pagoda, Taung Tha Man Lake.
We asked them to explain their drawings - what they know about the particular place or thing - the dos and dont's.
When I see this, I feel that they are not that unaware children. We can encourage them, we can teach them and we can cultivate them. But it is funny that every time when I go there I have to remind them to place their slippers systematically.
But I hope one day this will be become tnatural. Now, most of them have got to the point where they place their slippers systematically. So, I feel that I can do it. I can improve some parts of their life.
Taungthman village through the minds of young children
Let's build this together
Aarti Kawlra selected a photograph from the exhibition, Ambedkar Nagar- Near Kakkan Bridge, Chennai, to write her story for the session on Reading/Writing/Re-writing/Telling/Re-telling using prompts, 20 December 2019.
Another female MA student is Ms. Myo Thandar Soe and she began the introduction of cultural anthropology in her presentation.
There are many souvenir shops near the U Pein Bridge. In the west side of U Pein Bridge, we found souvenir shops selling hats, bags and cotton clothes and there are many shops, visitors and restaurants than the east side.
"May God preserve us from sickness that comes from elsewhere…”.
yalna laa baay laate, dugal la ci poosam yobu la aldiana !
yalna nga àjji màkka
yalna nga giseek seriñ tuuba yoomalxiyaam
yalna la borom bi bindal tuyaaba
yalna nga amm ay seex
yalna nga tabbi ci teenu xaalis ñu lay gene ngay bañ
May God make Baye Lahat put you in his pocket and enter with you into Heaven.
May God give you the grace to perform Hajj in Makkah
May God make you meet Serigne Touba in the afterlife
May God record this good deed for you...
This is a play song from Kokrajar, Assam, India. Elders enact this with the children. The rough translation of the song is:
Rice cook … cook… cook…
Curry cook … cook… cook
Will you eat … will you eat … will you eat?
Keep for dinner also okay?
Lets go to plant rice now
Let’s make alli now
Let’s break alli
Let’s plant plant
Now let’s go to catch crabs from the holes
No way this side…no way that side… what about this side jogo…jogo…jogo!
In urban and suburban Nagaland, as in many of the conflict-affected regions of India's North-East, such signs calling into action people and collectives are commonly visible. In this poster, the church as site of popular resistance is agency for mobilisation of constituencies such as the youth towards a unified struggle for the Naga nation.