Alternatives texts available in South Asian languages

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Alternatives texts available in South Asian languages

 

Alternatives texts available in South Asian languages

 

New texts about alternatives in education are

today launched on the InterNICHE website

www.interniche.org.

 

‘Ethical and effective acquisition of knowledge

and skills’, a presentation by InterNICHE

Co-ordinator Nick Jukes about alternatives in

education, is published in Hindi and Urdu.

 

www.interniche.org/hindi/speech.pdf

 

www.interniche.org/urdu/speech.pdf

 

The Urdu document has also been published

recently in Tehzibul Akhlaq, an Islamic literary

scientific journal that addresses social reform

and new ideas, distributed across India, Pakistan

and further afield.

 

‘Alternative Methods and Curricular

Transformation’ - Part A of the book ‘from Guinea

Pig to Computer Mouse’ (InterNICHE 2003) - is

published in Malayalam, the language of the state

of Kerala in south India. This includes the

following chapters:

 

1. Types of alternative and their pedagogical impact

2. The broader impact of humane education

3. Assessment of alternatives in education (by Jonathan Balcombe)

4. Curricular design: Choosing and planning a

humane approach to life science education (by

Lara Marie Rasmussen)

5. Conscientious objection: Roles and

responsibilities for teachers and students

6. InterNICHE: Philosophy and practice

 

www.interniche.org/bookfiles/malayalam.pdf

 

Please note that this 83-page Malayalam file is about 12 MB in size.

 

Chapter 1 from Part A of the above book is also published in Hindi:

 

www.interniche.org/bookfiles/hindi.pdf

 

The texts were translated by Dr Syed Ziaur Rahman

(Urdu), by People for Animals Kollam (Malayalam),

and by a Jain translator (Hindi), with support

from IAAPEA.

 

 

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Nick Jukes

InterNICHE Co-ordinator

 

19 Brookhouse Avenue

Leicester LE2 0JE

England

 

tel/fax: +44 116 210 9652

e-mail: coordinator

web: www.interniche.org

 

 

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