Date: April 3, 2009
Time: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Where: The South Asia Institute at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

Educators for Teaching India (EFTI) is hosting the first secondary school conference on teaching India. The conference will feature a keynote address from Harvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna, as well as workshops by scholars of Indian literature, history, religion, media and global economics. Additionally, the conference will offer sessions on the pedagogy of teaching India in both public and private school classrooms. Led by a group of interdisciplinary educators currently teaching India, these workshops focus on the “how” of teaching such an ancient, diverse, and complex civilization in the secondary classroom.

Schedule
9:00 a.m. Keynote Address, Tarun Khanna
10.00 a.m. Coffee Break
10.30 a.m. Content Mini-sessions
12:00 p.m. Indian Lunch
1.30 p.m. Pedagogy Mini Sessions
3:00 p.m. Student Perspectives, Panel
3.30 p.m. Affinity Groups
5:00 p.m. Reception

The conference registration fee is $40.

To register, visit: http://www.teachingindia.org/conference_reg.aspx

Workshops
Session I
The seminars of this session approach the question “Why Teach India” from a variety of disciplinary and thematic perspectives. The presenters are all scholars from the Boston area whose research focuses on India. Their aim is to provide specific and practical information that teachers can easily adapt for secondary-level courses.

Session II
The seminars of this session focus on the “how” of teaching India in the secondary classroom. The presenters are high school teachers from a variety of disciplines who currently teach courses on India or courses that include specific units on India. These sessions aim to explore the practices and curricular innovations specific to the teaching of India at the high school level.

Keynote
Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, where he has studied and worked with multinational and indigenous companies and investors in emerging markets worldwide. He joined the faculty in 1993, after obtaining an engineering degree from Princeton University (1988) and a Ph.D. from Harvard (1993), and an interim stint on Wall Street. During this time, he has served as the head of several courses on strategy and international business targeted to MBA students and senior executives at Harvard.

In January, 2008 Tarun Khanna published rhw book, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours (Penguin Books in India and South Asia).

Link to Dr. Khanna’s faculty page:
http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facEmId=tkhanna

For more information, contact IndiaConference@andover.edu or call Raj Mundra at 978-749-4255.

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