Registrations are invited for Webinar on Contemporary Research on School Education by Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. The webinar will be held on October 25, 2024.
Azim Premji University is a private university, located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It was founded in 2010 and is named after Azim Premji, an Indian businessman and philanthropist who was chairman of Wipro Limited.
A second Azim Premji University campus opened in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh in July 2023.
Azim Premji set up the Foundation in 2001. Over the past years, he has irrevocably donated most of his wealth for philanthropic purposes and created a philanthropic endowment valued (as of Jan 2023) at approximately USD 29 billion (INR 2,40,000 crore) to fund the work of the Foundation. As part of this endowment, along with other assets, 66 percent of the economic ownership of Wipro Ltd is with the Foundation.
The university functioned out of a campus in Bengaluru’s electronic city from inception to 2020. It then moved to its own campus of 90 acres in Bengaluru’s Sarjapur-Attibele Road. This campus has classrooms and residential facilities for students and guests. It includes a library, seminar halls, amphitheatre, outdoor playfields and indoor sports complex.
School education in India is becoming an important area of interest and inquiry for policymakers, researchers, education students, practitioners, and various other stakeholders. This is the second webinar in the series, initiated to facilitate dialogues and collaborations and to disseminate new knowledge in the field of education to a larger audience.
It is a collaboration between Research Interest Group on School Education, Comparative Education Society of India and Azim Premji University.
The webinar will be on “Book Talk- Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala”.
October 25, 2024.
4:30 to 6:00 pm.
Divya Kannan, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR.
Vijitha Rajan, Faculty Member, School of Education, Azim Premji University.
Interested participants can register online via this link.
Email: outreach[at]apu[dot]edu[dot]in
