The Right to Education Resource Centre (RTERC) of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad is set to host the 4th edition of its annual flagship event, Winter School from December 15-18. The programme aims to orient participants towards public policy and social change.
The idea of the Winter School is to create a platform for individuals to understand and challenge dominant ideas about education and to put to test the power structures that exist in our society. The co-created space seeks to spur discussion on themes like importance of community knowledge, social work versus social change, engendering of education, social policy and practice, participatory research, and political-cultural dynamics around education.
Participants of Winter School go through an orientation programme for four days at the IIM-A campus. Professors of the institute and various other dignitaries from all over India take orientation classes for the participants. The purpose of the orientation programme is to give the participants a basic set of tools for understanding the social equations surrounding them. Last year’s Winter School witnessed lectures from professors Ankur Sarin, Anish Sugathan, Rajeev Sharma and Kathan Shukla.
Post the orientation programme, participants will pick a policy of their choice and do a practicum at a place of their choice. The practicum would ideally take 10 days. Participants are expected to send a report to the RTERC, detailing the work they have done to earn a certificate from IIM-A.
The deadline to apply to the programme has been extended to November 12, and more details can be found on the centre’s Facebook page.