The issue of language in education has acquired a new sense of urgency in India, and experiments with multi-lingual educations are being shaped in a variety of interesting ways. My own approach to the whole question of tribal education is stated in the attached text. – Prof. Ganesh Devy

Source: personal message dated 28 September 2012 Read “A View of Higher Education in India”, a public lecture delivered on September 26th, 2010 at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore

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See also

Adivasi Academy & Museum of Adivasi Voice at Tejgadh | Lecture “A View of Higher Education in India”

Appropriate education for Adivasi children – the Vidyodaya School model at Gudalur

eBook | Background guide

Childhood | Children’s books | Childrens rights: UNICEF India | Safe search

eJournal | Writing and teaching Santali in different alphabets: A success story calling for a stronger sense of self-confidence

People’s Linguistic Survey of India | Volumes (PLSI) | PeoplesLinguisticSurvey.org

Games and leisure time

Multi-lingual education | Residential school | Ekalavya

Multilingual education is a pillar of intergenerational learning – Unesco

Santali education | Teaching Santal children by Boro Baski

Storytelling | Success story

Tagore and rural culture

Unesco | Unicef | Unicef India | United Nations

United Nations International Days and Weeks

Video | “Nations don’t make us human – languages make us human”: Ganesh Devy

Women | Safe search | President Droupadi Murmu on women’s empowerment

Tip: click on any red marker for details on endangered languages in a particular region of India.
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