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The South Asia Center's Outreach program is committed to providing information on diverse topics related to South Asia to K-12 educators and students. Our outreach activities offer valuable insight into the cultures, languages, arts, literatures, religions, politics, history, and contemporary issues of South Asian countries by making available a variety of resources from Penn and beyond.
Summer Institute for K-16 teachers : June 23-27th, 2008
Application Deadline: Monday, June 2
Applicants will be notified by: Monday, June 9
Co-Sponsors: African Studies Center, Middle East Center, South Asia Center, Center for East Asian Studies, and the University Museum Education Department
Please email deshmukh@sas.upenn.edu if you are interested in bringing your students to Penn campus for Hello India Day on Saturday, March 29th, 2008. Free and open to all.
Please email haimanti@sas.upenn.edu by January 18th, 2008 if you are interested in bringing your students to Penn campus for Asia Day 2008 on Thursday, February 28th, 2008.
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The South Asia Center’s Outreach program is committed to providing information on diverse topics related to South Asia to K-12 educators and students. Our outreach programs offer valuable insight into the cultures, languages, arts, literatures, religions, politics, history, and contemporary issues of South Asian countries by making available a variety of resources from Penn and beyond. Most of our resources are available to the K-12 teaching community for free or at minimum cost. We, at the South Asia Center, welcome your ideas and suggestions about K-12 outreach activities. If you have an idea you'd like to share, please contact Outreach Coordinator Haimanti Banerjee at 215-898-4490 or haimanti@sas.upenn.edu. |
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Assistance
We are happy to offer assistance with any aspect of the teaching and learning of South Asia. This can include our assistance with finding appropriate curriculum materials, developing curriculum materials on suggested topics according to state standards, presenting at professional development workshops, participating at your school’s diversity day programs, and helping you connect with experts on South Asian subjects you’re teaching.
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List-serves
By joining our events list-serve you can keep track of our programs that are especially designed for K-12 teachers, such as professional development sessions, study abroad opportunities and updated resources. Please email jchavez@ccat.sas.upenn.edu to join the list-serve.
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Workshops and Summer Institutes
The South Asia Center organizes a variety of workshops, many of which are offered in collaboration with other Penn departments and centers, such as the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cinema Studies, Annenberg School for Communication and other National Resource Centers at Penn. We also look forward to developing workshops that suit the specific needs of a particular school/district and host these on Penn campus as well as at off campus locations (K-12 teacher conferences, school district offices and schools).
Participants are provided with information packets containing lesson-plans and relevant readings. Participating teachers can opt to receive ACT 48 or other state credit equivalents for attending these programs with prior confirmation from the South Asia Center.
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Application Deadline: Monday, June 2
Applicants will be notified by: Monday, June 9
Co-Sponsors: African Studies Center, Middle East Center, South Asia Center, Center for East Asian Studies, and the University Museum Education Department
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On-Campus Conferences/Lectures/Musical Programs
Each semester a number of events are hosted at Penn either independently by the South Asia Center or in collaboration with other Penn departments. Internationally renowned speakers and performers are invited at these events which focus on myriad topics related to South Asia. Past events have included conferences on South Asian cinema, Indian feminisms, South Asian classical music and several others. A schedule of our upcoming programs is available here.
Many of these programs are scheduled in the evenings or weekends and are usually free and open to all (except noted otherwise), although registration may be required for some. For appropriate activities, participating teachers can opt to receive ACT 48 or other state credit equivalents for attending these programs with prior confirmation from the South Asia Center.
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Other Penn Resources
• Penn's Graduate School of Education offers a wide variety of degrees and continuing education
programs for teachers.
• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
• The Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) at Penn engages in collaborative research
initiatives, seminars, conferences, publications, and outreach concerning contemporary India
and the Indo-US relationship today.
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Non-Penn Institutions Offering Professional Development Opportunities
• World Affairs Council of Philadelphia
• World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh
• Pennsylvania Council for International Education
• NAFSA: Association of International Educators
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Lesson Plans
• Lessons developed by teacher participants of the SAC’s 2005 Fulbright-Hays Group Project
Abroad to India
• Lessons on diverse topics related to South Asia collected from the internet
On Nepal
On Pakistan
On Tibet
On Islam
• Lessons contributed by our teacher-friends
• Outreach World
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Speakers Bureau
Penn’s faculty, graduate students and South Asia experts from the community form the South Asia Center’s Speakers Bureau. These speakers have an expertise in a wide variety of subjects; recent classroom visit topics include ‘Islamic Art in South Asia’, ‘Popular Culture of South Asian Countries’ and many others. Speakers can be invited to make their presentations to your classes on topics suggested by you. It is preferable to contact the South Asia Center well in advance of the desired visit so as to avoid conflicting schedules. Forms requesting classroom visits are available at Classroom Visit Request Form.
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Materials: Books, Films and Artifacts
Besides the South Asia collection at the Van Pelt Library, the South Asia Center also has books and artifacts that highlight the cultural aspects of the region, such as music, dress, games and the like. These can be borrowed from our Center for classroom use. To borrow non-library materials, please contact Outreach Coordinator Haimanti Banerjee at 215-898-4490 or haimanti@sas.upenn.edu. The procedure for borrowing library materials is explained on our Library Resources.
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The Van Pelt Library of the University of Pennsylvania has an extensive collection of South Asian texts and films which can be borrowed for use in classrooms by following the procedures described below:
View library resources
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Obtaining print materials (primarily books)
To locate items of interest, first search library catalog, Franklin. This is a standard library online catalogue and searching it should be straightforward. For those items in our collection which circulate (the catalog record will make this clear), you can make note of the work and submit it to your local library’s interlibrary loan office and they will be able to process the request. Should you encounter any problems, feel free to contact our South Asia bibliographer, David Nelson, nelsond@pobox.upenn.edu (215-898-7460).
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Obtaining Films/Documentaries
Our films (both feature and documentary) are fully catalogued and are all available through our interlibrary loan system. If there is a film or films in our video catalogue that interests you, please request those through your respective library's interlibrary loan office. For those of you not affiliated with an institution of higher learning, you could make use of your local public library to place the loan request.
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Asia Day
Asia Day 2008: Thursday, February 28th
For the past six years the South Asia Center has been organizing Asia Day in February on Penn campus. This event, co-sponsored with the Center for East Asian Studies, enables more than a hundred high school students from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware to attend an intensive day long program of classes on varied topics related to South and East Asia, as well as enjoy Indian and Chinese cuisine! Faculty and graduate students of Penn offer their expertise in subjects ranging from arts to politics. Asia Day continues to be one of the most exciting of South Asia Center’s outreach programs for K-12 students. If you would like your students to attend this event, please contact us.
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Hello India
On Saturday, March 29th, 2008, the South Asia Center and the University of Pennsylvania Museum's International Classroom are planning to host a day long event on Saturday for K-12 students and community members. Please check our calendar of Events for details about the program.
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Special programs for students can be scheduled in conjunction with your specific needs. These might include a tour of the University Museum, workshops on South Asia related issues, attending a class on South Asia, and other programs to assist you in teaching about South Asia.
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The South Asia Center throughout the year brings to Penn campus internationally renowned scholars and performers who share their expertise and talent at events which are open to all. Almost all of these are free, though prior registration may be required for some of these. We would love to have your students attend these events which can be found listed on our website on the Events page.
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We will be happy to facilitate your students’ access to the South Asia resources available at the Penn library to do their research. Please contact South Asia bibliographer Dr. David Nelson at nelsond@pobox.upenn.edu or 215-898-7460 if you would wish to avail this facility.
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The South Asia Center works closely with Penn’s Department of South Asia Studies which offers instruction in eight to ten (depending on enrollment) South Asian languages. Linguistic assistance can be provided by our language experts to meet the needs of you and your school district. These can range from offering assistance with the teaching of a South Asian language to your students, to informing teachers and staff of the socio-linguistic and socio-cultural facets of students speaking these South Asian languages. In the past we have offered professional development sessions to ESL teachers acquainting them of the cultural and linguistic background of their South Asian first generation students.
July 2007: Hindi Language courses will be offered at Delaware County, PA. Please email haimanti@sas.upenn.edu if you, your students or community members are interested in this language and culture course.
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At Penn
• Please visit the Events page to get updated and detailed information of events hosted by the South
Asia Center at Penn.
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The South Asia Center aims to facilitate the accessibility of South Asia related information to K-12 educators and students. To facilitate this process we would encourage you (and your students) to contribute to our website under Teacher/Student Contributions, Lessons, or the Newsletter. These will be posted with proper credit to the contributor. Following are suggested ways in which you and your students can enrich our resources:
• Lessons on South Asia designed by you. These will be uploaded on our website with proper credit
being accorded to you as the lesson planner.
• Internet or other resources on South Asia which you would like to share with other teachers.
• Articles related to your class-projects, South Asia travel experiences, students’ views and write-
ups on South Asia, commentaries on South Asian events attended at Penn and elsewhere.
If you are interested in submitting your contribution to the South Asia Center, please email haimanti@sas.upenn.edu.
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South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania
820 Williams Hall, 255 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Phone: 215-898-7475/4490, Fax: 215-573-2138; Email: haimanti@sas.upenn.edu |
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