Culture, Curriculum, and Indian Diaspora: Can We Exchange Knowledge Through Transnational Relations to Transform Learning?

• In Event: Saturday Roundtable Session 9:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Bringing Into Focus Obscured and Understudied Curricular Perspectives (Table 29)

Abstract

How can the Indian diasporic community transform learner potential through curriculum knowledge exchange and transnational relations with schools in cities within India, for quality education?

I draw on a scoping review, content analysis of website and film material of three Indian oriented curriculum models; and field visit observations and interviews with management and practitioners of schools using three Indian oriented curriculum models, located in England and in India.

Findings are presented in terms of key themes raised thorough the scoping review; the kinds of curricular knowledge the schools recognise and value in what they espouse to nurture, through the Indian oriented curriculum models; and dialectic struggles highlighted through semi structured interviews, giving rise to possibilities for knowledge exchange.

Author

• Rita Chawla-Duggan, University of Bath