CCYSC Awaaz

In the thirteenth episode of CCYSC Awaaz,  Rabani Garg discusses her interest and experiences in designing and conducting literacy projects for schools, communities, and libraries in India. As the co-founder and editor of Thinking, an Indian children’s magazine, she was involved in creating a literacy resource that focused on encouraging linguistic, literary, and cultural pluralism. Currently at the University of Pennsylvania, she studies issues of diversity, representations and power structures in language, literature and media, and its impact on learners. She discusses her work with Kanak, a MA student at Ambedkar University Delhi. 

Edited by Astha Ohri  (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi)

Music:  Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC

In the twelfth episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Nipunika Sachdeva and Dr. Shivani Nag discuss mental health in education.

Dr. Shivani Nag is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi. Her academic and research interests include sociocultural theories of learning and cognition, multilingual education, critical and feminist pedagogies, and democratization of education with focus on processes of socio-cultural inclusion of the marginalized in school and higher education and qualitative research methods.

Nipunika Sachdeva is a spoken word poet, writer and a graphic design enthusiast, studying education at Ambedkar University Delhi. She is passionate about a wide range of things, from political theory to queer representation to artificial intelligence.

Edited by Madhuwanti Mitra  (MA student, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai)

Music:  Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC

In the eleventh episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Dr. Chiara Diana and Dr. Hia Sen discuss their research interests and examine childhood studies from the Middle East and South Asia.

Dr. Chiara Diana's current research interests include childhood and youth, civil society, education, political socialization, and memory of the 2010-2011 revolution in Tunisia and in Egypt. She is currently project manager of the artistic project Mémoires intimes d’une révolution (with the photographer Hugo Albignac) and founder member of the Association of Middle East Children’s and Youth Studies (AMECYS).

Dr. Hia Sen studied sociology in Kolkata and New Delhi and completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. Her research interest include sociology of childhood, youth, and theatre. She is also interested in children’s play, agency, spaces, performance.

Edited by Astha Ohri  (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi)

Music:  Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC

In this tenth episode, Dr. Catriona Ellis and Dr. Akash Bhattacharya discuss the history of education in India. Dr. Ellis and Dr. Bhattacharya talk about their research, the challenges and sources that can be used in studying the history of education, and potential directions for future research.

Dr. Catriona Ellis teaches at the University of Strathclyde in the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. Her recent publications include “Climbing the Coconut Tree: Three South Indians Use Their Personal Memories of Colonial Education to Influence the Decolonisation of Education after Independence” in Decolonization(s) and Education: New Polities and New Men, edited by Daniel Maul and Marcelo Caruso (New York: Peter Lang, 2020) and “History of Colonial Education: Key Reflections” in Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia, edited by Padma M. Sarangapani and Rekha Pappu (New York: Springer, 2020).

Dr. Akash Bhattacharya teaches at the School of Education at Azim Premji University. He works on a range of topics, including the history of education and pedagogy in colonial India and colonial vernacular literature and the politics of modern history writing.

Edited by Sanjana Chopra (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi)

Music:  Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC

In this episode, Dr. Sylvia Nissen and Dr. Ritodhi Chakraborty discuss youth politics and activism and labor as well as rural transformation and cultural anxiety in India and Aotearoa New Zealand.

Sylvia Nissen is an assistant professor of environmental policy at Lincoln University (New Zealand). Her research explores the politics of young people’s participation in social and environmental issues. She is the author of Student Debt and Political Participation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Student Political Action in New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books, 2019).

Ritodhi Chakraborty is a postdoctoral fellow at Lincoln University (New Zealand). His research interests include working with grassroots climate change adaptation initiatives, ecosystem services, social-ecological systems research and masculinity/gender subjectivities, especially in the Himalayan region (India, Bhutan, China).

Edited by Pooja Agarwal (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi).

Music:  Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC.

Photo by Krishna Kant on Unsplash

In the eighth episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Cassie Brownell and Shivani Nag discuss their research interests and specifically explore multimodal, multicultural, and multilingual education.

Dr. Brownell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education within the University of Toronto. She received her doctorate in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education--with a language and literacies specialization and certificates in qualitative research and urban education--from Michigan State University in 2018.  Dr. Brownell's interests in language and literacy practices stem from her seven years of teaching experience. Her tenure as a teacher includes working with three and four year old students abroad as well as teaching grades 1, 2, and 4 in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana. Broadly, Dr. Brownell is interested in the politics of identity and language in contemporary schooling. Utilizing a sociocultural approach grounded in tenets of social justice, she seeks to better nuance children's writerly and social identities through developing a compositional fluency in the elementary English language arts classroom.

Dr. Shivani Nag is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi. Her academic and research interests include sociocultural theories of learning and cognition, multilingual education, critical and feminist pedagogies, and democratization of education with focus on processes of socio-cultural inclusion of the marginalized in school and higher education and qualitative research methods.

Edited by Astha Ohri  (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi)

Music:  Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC

Tune into the seventh episode of the CCYSC AWAAZ with Sushri Sangita Puhan and Dr. Elizabeth Dillenburg as they discuss Sushri's ground-breaking work on adoptive family practice and display in India.  In this episode, Sushri shares stories from working in the field and reflects on the challenges of working on adoption in India.

Sushri Sangita Puhan is a child rights practitioner and a Chevening & Chancellor's scholar and doctoral researcher in social work at the University of Sussex.

Dr. Elizabeth Dillenburg is assistant professor of history at the Ohio State University at Newark. Her research focuses on histories of childhood, gender, and colonialism.

Edited by Sanjana Chopra (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi)

Music:  Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC

Tune into the 6th episode of the CCYSC AWAAZ with Dr. Heidi Morrison and Dr. Divya Kannan as they discuss Dr. Morrison's research on the history of childhood in the Middle East and the evolution of the field of the history of childhood and future directions of research.

Dr. Heidi Morrison is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and is founding president of the Association for Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS). She is visiting senior Research Fellow at Tampere University's Center for Excellence in the History of Experience. She is author of Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt and the editor of The Global History of Childhood Reader. She is working on a book, Surviving Memory in Palestine: Narration, Trauma, and Children of the Second Intifada.

Dr. Divya Kannan is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Shiv Nadar University. Her areas of interest include histories of childhood and education, colonialism and empire, oral histories, curriculum and feminist studies.

Edited by Sanjana Chopra (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi)

Music:  Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC

Tune into the 5th episode of the CCYSC AWAAZ with Dr. Maithreyi R in conversation with Dr. Vidya Subramanian as they discuss the former’s research on low-cost schooling in Bihar, her experience of observing life skills education programs, and disciplinary frameworks.

Dr. Maithreyi R is a Senior Adolescent research Consultant at Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, Bangalore.

Dr. Vidya Subramanian is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Education, Innovation and Action Research, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

Edited by Pooja Agarwal (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi)

Music:  Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC