A research lesson on Indian festival of colours - holi- was prepared and transacted with a child of grade studing at Disha – A centre of multiple disabilities. The four segments of the collage show the multimodal involvement of the child for language development along with cordodination skills and fine motor development.
After the lesson study, an abstract was written for further work as follows.
Title: Linking Culture to Learning for Children with Special Needs: Micro-Learning Based Lesson Study on Indian Festivals of Colours
Abstract: A lesson study related to cultural linkage of the Indian festival of colours – Holi – was undertaken for language development of a child with special needs. The objectives of the lesson study were: (1) To develop a micro-learning based research lesson for Hindi language learning of a child with Cerebral Palsy (age: 9 years; above average IQ; grade two; male); and; (2) To transact the research lesson to adapt it as part of syllabus of grade two Hindi for similar situation. The methodology of clinical lesson study (one-on-one; micro-learning episodes with protocols) was used for the research. The research lesson with triangulated intrinsic validity was the tool for the study which was reviewed by organizing a mini focus group and fine-tuned. Also, teacher training modification was implicated in the study along with a teacher handbook on the lesson with content, learning task sheets and procedure for use to teach culture-linked Hindi in a special school.
Keywords: Children with special needs, culture-linked learning, curriculum adaptation, language development, lesson study, micro-learning
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