Call for Papers
The Fourth International Conference on Creativity and Innovation at Grassroots [ICCIG4]
Educational Innovations
January 28-30, 2019
We invite you to participate in an exciting dialogue centered on the intersection among education, creativity and inclusion, in a ‘grassroots’ context. We define the grassroots as any microsite where macro-processes of exclusion are at work. Thus, it could be within the formal education system, sites that cater to socio-economically and geographically disadvantaged children where the ideologies of exclusion based on gender, disability status, socio-economic backwardness and many other characteristics, are particularly active. Any attempt to counter exclusionary impulses demands that teachers and others responsible for education in such systems be creative and resourceful. Or it could be in non-formal settings that deliberately target including children in human development through innovative approaches to education.Such attempts, while being creative and innovative themselves, also have to allow the creative potential that exists in every child to blossom unhampered, free of the millstones of exclusion we have hung around the necks of our children. Thus, they counter the criticism often made of exclusionary forms of education: educating children into fear of being wrong, suppressing curiosity and discouraging expressiveness. And they try to leverage creativity and innovation to nurture both positive academic outcomes, especially angular excellencewhen a child excels in only one or two subjects, and desirable non-academic outcomes such as self-confidence, motivation and self-efficacy.
We invite papers on the following themes. A few selected questions of interest are given as examples.
Innovative use of technology in education
- How have public systems leveraged technology to promote an innovative blending of quality inputs and inclusive development? Models such as ‘Samarth’, the online professional development platform at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, seek to answer this question.
- How have Technical, Design and other institutions of higher education tried to connect science, society and inclusive development in pedagogy and social practice?
Policies for grassroots educational innovation
- What are the recent trends in democratizing the access of disadvantaged children to high-quality content and mentors? What can we learn from the reflections of policy makers?
- What strategies have helped in overcoming the weak links among academia, industry and the informal sector, especially at the higher levels of education? Models such as www.inand gyti.techpedia.in try to achieve such a linkage.
- How can teachers be encouraged to engage in experimentation to overcome the disadvantages that arise from poor infrastructure, irregular attendance of children, learning difficulties among first-generation learners, multilingual learners, etc.?
Community Participation
- Can innovative approaches to engaging the community, especially at the village level, help in creating a culture of academic performance among communities that are educationally disadvantaged?
- What strategies help in building functional partnerships among the state and the community, especially when the evidence for the value of decentralized management of education is mixed?
Innovative classroom and school processes, and children’s creativity
- What methods of teaching-learning and student engagement, and other schooling practices, encourage educationally disadvantaged children to develop as all-round individuals?
- What practices encourage and leverage student creativity and knowledge to create a positive educational culture?
- How can knowledge inclusion, the valorization of children’s knowledge, enrich the curriculum in disadvantages contexts?
- What specific innovative teaching-learning and classroom approaches address the needs of children identified as “learning-disabled”?
- How can specially abled children from disadvantaged socio-economic contexts become full participants in the educational process?
- What methods specifically encourage student creativity in order to make the formal curriculum more meaningful and effective?
Special theme: What will Mahatma Gandhi say about education, creativity and inclusion?
As the tagline of the conference announces, this conference is being organized in the 150th birth anniversary year of Mahatma Gandhi. As a tribute to Gandhi and his pioneering thoughts on ‘nai talim’ or New Education, a system that was very concerned about inclusive development and tried to integrate manual work with mental labor, we welcome papers on experiments that are directly or indirectly inspired by the principles that Gandhi stood for. Thus, we welcome contributions from schools and rural colleges that are specifically based on his ideals as well as educational experiments that seek to develop values such as peace and non-violence, self-reliance, and other values promoted by Gandhi.
Guidelines for submission:
- Abstract Submission:
Deadline – December 31, 2018
Submission format: 500 words in .doc/ .docx/ .pdf file.
Where to submit: On the REGISTRATION tab in the conference websitehttp://www.iccig.org. (You may please send a copy by email to eibank@iima.ac.in, to facilitate quicker processing.)
The abstract should describe the problem addressed, the process followed to solve the problem, an assessment of the work and the results obtained.The authors of the selected abstracts will be notified by January 7, 2019.
- PaperSubmission:
Deadline – January 18, 2019
Submission format:2500 to 4000 words in .doc/ .docx/ .pdf file, in English only. You may attach photographs in .jpg/ .jpeg/ .png/ .pdf formatand/or a short 5-minute video in .mpeg-4/ .mp4/ .mov/ .mkv format.
Where to submit: Please send your paper and any attachments by email to eibank@iima.ac.in, indicating iccig4 in the subject line.
Authors of papers selected for presentation will be notified by January 22, 2019. Note that the presenters will have to be participants registered for the conference; please ensured that you have registered through the REGISTRATION tab on the conference website http://www.iccig.org.
We particularly encourage practitioners working at the grassroots to present their work. Papers from special areas such as geographically or politically disadvantaged zones are especially welcome.
Contact Details:
Phone: +91-079-66324870, +91-079-66324861
Email: eibank@iima.ac.in (Educational Innovations Bank, RJMCEI, IIMA)