[Reader-list] Workshop on Reading Outside the Curriculum: Kolkata: Register by Aug 10

[Chintan]

*Reading Text: A Workshop with Minu Tharoor on 'Reading Outside the
Curriculum' for Students and Teachers*

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 This workshop is about encouraging students to read outside the curriculum,
to enjoy reading, to derive important ideas from what they read, and to
relate those ideas to issues that are pertinent to their lives and the world
around them. The particular texts that we will discuss are often about
unfamiliar places and unexpected circumstances. The power of the writing
compels us to confront those subjects, enter their concerns and perhaps
reexamine our own assumptions and our interactions with others. These texts
also allow us to focus on how to negotiate difference, how conflict and
miscommunications occur, but transformation and understanding as well.

Among the questions that we will explore through our readings and
discussions are:
—What kinds of texts (stories, essays, poems) are likely to hold the
students’ attention and make reading an attractive exercise?
—How can we as educators help them to deepen their experience of reading?
—Should students apply all that they read to their own lives and worlds? Is
there a value in the unfamiliar?
—Stereotypes feature in some of the texts. Why do they exist? How much of
them do we share?
—These are texts primarily meant for adults. Are they accessible to senior
class students? Is the violence in some too disturbing?

Faciliatator: Minu Tharoor (Professor of English, New York University)

  Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009
 Time: 3:00pm - 7:00pm
 Location: The Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre
 Street: 36C, S. P. Mukherjee Road, Kolkata


Entry Free. But prior registration with name and phone number required.

Last date of registration: 10 August 2009

To register, call Megha Malhotra at 2455 6942/43