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This website is a repository for sharing emerging insights from a year-long research project funded by TESF Project Plus as part of the Global Challenges Research Fund. This project used the lens of theater to understand the experiences of those who are excluded/marginalized in the educational system as a step towards reconsidering the role of performative pedagogies after the Covid-19 pandemic. The definition of “excluded” and “marginalized” applied here was somewhat broader than what the terms usually imply, and included not just those from socially marginalized groups but also those whose voices are marginalized within the teaching-learning architecture of education, specifically, teachers/educators who find themselves increasingly sidelined in the larger discourses around education. The core of the research is based on extensive conversations with groups of young people from 3 different marginalized communities located in Bhopal, India; long-form interviews with in-service teachers who graduated from an inter-disciplinary teacher education program offered by Delhi University which includes courses in theater praxis; and interviews with educators and artists whose practices combine the performing arts and pedagogy.
The project was led by Sukhesh Arora and Shena Gamat.
The project was led by Sukhesh Arora and Shena Gamat.