[Dialogue] Interesting networking challenge related to grassroots education in India

[Mary Laura Jones]

please send me the info for the prayer book. Thanks. ml

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:21 PM, David Dunn <dmdunn1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Colleagues.
>
>
> I've been privileged to work with a new spirit colleague for the last
> several months: Madhuvanti Anantharajan, an Indian artist and art educator
> who is the illustrator for a women's empowerment manual that I'm publishing
> for the Huairou Commission in New York City.*
>
> Do a Google search for Madhuvanti Anantharajan for an impressive sampling
> of her work and engagements. **
>
> Here's the question that needs broad input:
>
> Who in our network and extended relations should Madhu and I engage with
> the question of support for the mid-career professional development of an
> Indian colleague who works on arts and social justice education at the
> community level in India? ***
>
> Thanks for any and all thoughts.
>
> David
>
> ps. You could engage Madhu directly if you wished, but please copy me.
>
>
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>
>
> * With thanks to Dick Alton and Lisel Burns for pointing the way to this
> important project.
>
>
> **
> Note especially:
>
> http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/ghostmountain.pdf
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/32248679/Jamun-Has-Her-Wish-by-Vibha-Batra
>
> http://gyanpedia.in/Portals/0/Toys%20from%20Trash/Resources/books/storyofchemistry.pdf
> http://www.saffrontree.org/2009/12/chuskit-goes-to-school.html
> [et cetera!]
>
>
>  ***
> Madhu wrote: I have been accepted to the Harvard Graduate School of
> Education for a one year Masters course called The Arts in Education, and to
> the Maryland Institute College of Art for a one year + one summer Masters in
> Community Arts. Both these courses feel like very organic extensions of the
> work I've been doing so far, but in slightly different ways. My first
> preference is Harvard, where the course feel like a remarkably good fit for
> me - academic enquiry into the various roles that the arts play in
> education, emphasising the importance of interdisciplinary dialogue. The
> course in MICA is a close second for me, with a strong emphasis on the arts
> and social justice education.
> I see my work in the future based primarily in India, with a focus on the
> arts and history education at the community level.
>
>
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