Established by the GOI, under its Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Government of India in 2008, the National Girl Child Day (NGCD) is celebrated in the country January 24 to promote awareness about the rights of girls and improve child sex ratio. It is matter of great concern that abuse of and atrocities against the girl child are going unabated despite all the schemes which have systemic faults and projects have been planned to fail, it is perceived by serious social activists.
However, gender equitable education has been seen as the way to social equity and inclusion which is being termed as 'feminist popular pedagogy' which when implemented at the institutional level have shown positive results.
Here, I reproduce by write-up as a short note on the form of pedagogy which is needed to at the individual institutional and classroom levels to reap its benefits.
Title of the write up: Knowing feminist popular pedagogy - A short note and a sketch note
In the concept of popular feminist education, the mode of education facilitates a practice of ‘action and reflection’ with a view towards challenging systems of power, privilege, inequity, exclusivity, subjugation and oppression.
In feminist education, the participants collectively achieve critical consciousness and from this awareness for challenging unjust uses of power within the educational institution, classroom and the community that affect their social realities.
In this form of pedagogy, education focuses on class oppression to the exclusion through the dynamics of gender and race in ways that reinforces patriarchal systems and ways of learning.
The practitioners focus their analysis and practice on gender rights. They link social justice issues more broadly to the whole person, in their body, mind, spirit and emotion
The practices of feminist education believe in the development of the whole person through movement, singing, art and theater as an integral to feminist praxis, which honours ways of knowing beyond the cognitive in order to bring about social change and effective learning.
The practitioners of feminist education orient themselves towards embodied activities and transform the individual to enact social change through popular theater, approach social change at the collective level, through group analysis and action
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