This article aims to reflect upon a possible path for the relatively fast growing medium of children’s literature in the subcontinent with a very particular focus on inclusion. In the expansion in volume of producing children’s literature in the past two and a half decades ( 2000 – 2025) , ‘both production and consumption of…
In this session titled ’10 Things You Should Know about Reading’, our speaker Sujata Noronha expounds on the advantages of proximity to literature.
In this session titled ‘Story Books in the Reading Life of Your Child’, our speaker Sujata Noronha dwells on the indispensability of good literature for children.
What is the difference between an adults’ library and a children’s library? I may ask and you are very likely to respond by saying, the children! As library practitioners who make a conscious choice to work with children, we need to examine more carefully what we mean when we say children, because we may all…
We inhabit a complicated world. There is likely to be very little argument with this statement. So, it is not surprising or startling to recognize that the library space as a place is unlikely to be free of complications. Yet the word library continues to play out in images and contexts – probably sepia toned,…
A couple of years ago, a participant on the Library Educators Course was keen to explore the theme of caste for a focussed field project activity. In discussing the why and why not and the how and when with her and co-mentor Usha Mukunda, I was left with the growing realization that our exploration of…
A library is for everyone. But as able-bodied human beings we often think of everyone to mean more like us. And yet we know that society, our communities, consist of people who are different in many ways and if a library is really for everyone, how do we practice that including and designing for all….
All around us, we hear practitioners seeking ideas for a rapid transfer to online modes. We sense that the library and practices with children, like other educational institutions with the same age group, feel that they have to rapidly transition to online and digital formats, adopting remote modes of teaching and learning since this is…
I remember so vividly a day in the Chimbel library room where I was reading with a child whilst the whole room was busy and bustling with raised voices, quiet chatter, intoned hum of independent reading, a slim frame crowded the door. I looked up into the eyes of a distinctly curious boy who immediately…
No matter what the grief, its weight, we are obliged to carry it. These are the first two lines of a poem by Dorianne Laux titled ‘For the Sake of Strangers’. I retrieve those lines here and more in this post as I attempt to share a rather singular story that emerged out of…