Other Reports
This rapid survey, in collaboration with a team of schoolteachers, organized a number of home visits in the district of Kolkata to interact with groups of children with special needs and their parents to ascertain their educational needs and challenges during the Pandemic. View Report ...
At a time when COVID-19 forced school closure, several schoolteachers in West Bengal and the members of the Pratichi team regularly met online to discuss not only the unprecedented educational challenges that the Pandemic triggered but also some of the concrete remedial measures that appeared feasible even in those hard times. This collection of essays authored by a number of schoolteachers provides glimpses of such resilient insights. View Report ...
This report came out of a shared exercise – a programme of collective action – in which a committed band of teachers across the primary school to university levels, socially oriented researchers and activists of the state took part. It aims at facilitating primary education of quality and equity in West Bengal ...
This paper on a feature most critical to the success of the CMMP was presented at the 4th Annual International Conference of the Comparative Education Society of India (CESI) at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata in December 2013 ...
The Pratichi Trust, in collaboration with Child Rights and You (CRY) India, worked on a project entitled ‘Public Participation in Education.’ One of the aims of the project was to build among teachers the capacity for communication and free exchange of ideas among themselves. In a series of workshops, organised at the district level, teachers recorded in writing their experiences pertaining to teaching, curricula and the overall processes of day-to-day running of schools. This report – a compilation of the teachers’ own narratives highlighting issues of primary schooling that need to be addressed urgently – has provided the public with not only a trove of valuable, first-hand accounts of the teachers’ efforts, practices, challenges and innovations but also an excellent tool for analyzing their ideologies, motivations, and capabilities. View Report ...
As part of the collaborative project, ‘Documenting New Initiatives in Primary Schools,’ run by the Pratichi (India) Trust and Child Rights and You (CRY) in Birbhum, a Reading Festival (Boi pawRar utshob) was organised on 18 November 2011 at Rabindra Shiksha Niketan in Bolpur. This is a report of the first reading festival that involved inviting children from various groups to a common venue, where they would read, write, draw, dance, sing and carry out activities of their own choice with complete freedom. View Report ...
A report of the Chandrakant Patil Memorial Eastern India Regional Health Assembly held on 9 July 2011 in Kolkata. View Report ...
Pratichi’s collaboration with the All Bengal Primary Teachers’ Association (ABPTA) and UNICEF Kolkata on generating a wider discussion on the Right to Education resulted in the workshop – “Improvement of Schooling” – held on 17 September 2011 in Kolkata. This is a brief report of the same event. View Report ...
This paper was presented at the 8th Kolkata Group Workshop titled Eliminating Injustice, organised by the Pratichi Trust, Harvard University Global Security Initiative and UNICEF, titled Eliminating Injustice, on 15-16 February 2010 at the National Library, Kolkata ...
While recognising the immense contribution of the small schools – the SSKs – towards meeting the goal of universal education the paper raises some questions concerned with equality and justice ...
