Session Title: Literary Lab
Date and time: Friday, July 3, 4.00 pm IST
Workshop Overview
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. – John Dewey
Existence and relevance of the term lab has mainly been thought in the context of STEM courses with the notion that experiments can be conducted and are needed there only. This narrow definition, however, has deprived language learners of a much-required experience.
In Literary Studies, experiential learning, ‘learning through reflection on doing’, proposes directions for learners. It makes learning an experience and goes beyond the traditional teaching-learning mode where a teacher is at the helm of affairs transmitting information as an authority and the learner at the receiver’s end listening to him/her in awe but not learning adequately how to utilise the knowledge independently and enhance professional prospects.
With the outcry for and impact of learner-centric and outcome-based education as well as changing demand and the professional scope of humanities and specifically the English language in India, a student of literature requires a different set of skills. The broadened scope and changed demands entail that Literary Studies devise strategies that help students develop and augment a set of skills to capitalise on the opportunities available.
The workshop Literary Lab is conceived with a view to sharing strategies that let the students studying literature have an opportunity to
- assess various possibilities of application of the learning in the class
- have direct experience with a focused objective
- be an active participant in the learning process
- collaborate and exchange ideas
- be a confident and independent learner
The workshop would share the strategies that can create possibilities of transforming experiences identified by Kolb
- Reflective Observation
- Active Experimentation
Join the workshop to experience the possibilities of work and demand focused experiential learning in Literary Studies.
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow. – John Dewey
Workshop Coordinator:Dr Parul Popat,Associate Professor,Department of English,Sardar Patel University,Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat
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