Pre-Conference Event 1
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Talk on
Decolonising Children
by
Professor Sundar Sarukkai
Date: 8 November 2021
Time: 4 to 5.30 pm IST
Platform: Zoom
Registration Link-https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yS8udHIm4yCs1QyMkhUyXsXWjXnDbh52KfJJlDnBNog/edit
Meeting Link-https://christuniversity-in.zoom.us/j/81262868011?pwd=ZmtKcUlNdUNlVW5LemxyR2Qxb0VrQT09
Decolonising Children
In the movement on decolonisation, there is a general emphasis on decolonising knowledge systems and educational practices. But decolonisation as a project is impossible without first decolonising the individual and it has to begin with children. What does it really mean to decolonise children? Decolonise 'minds' as suggested by many? Decolonise the body? What does a project of decolonising children accomplish? A movement back to past traditions? In this talk, Professor Sarukkai will argue that decolonising children is a way to allow them to recover the diversity and multiplicity in learning and living, along with a sensitivity to humane practices that can be learnt from communities across the world.
Professor Sundar Sarukkai
Sundar Sarukkai works primarily in the philosophy of the natural and the social sciences. He is currently a Visiting Faculty at the Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has also been actively taking philosophy to different communities and places, conducting philosophy workshops for children and bringing philosophy to the public through his writing in the media and through Barefoot Philosophers (www.barefootphilosophers.org). Earlier, he was the professor at National Institute of Advanced Studies till 2019 and was the Founder-Director of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities where he set up an innovative interdisciplinary postgraduate and PhD program. He is the author of many books such as Translating the World: Science and Language (2002), Philosophy of Symmetry (2004), What is Science? (2012), two books co-authored with Gopal Guru – The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory (2012) etc and most recently Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social (2019). His latest book is Philosophy for Children: Thinking, Reading and Writing (2021) and it is being published in English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali.
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