CULTURE KITS
The South Asia Program has kits for India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka which can be picked up at our offices at 170 Uris Hall, Cornell University, 255-8493. In addition, an extensive kit around water awareness and issues surrounding them in Nepal that combine Science, Social Science (Culture) –great for those interested in global climate change--see the description and downloadable curriculum on our website:
PRESENTERS
(dependent upon speaker availability)
BANGLADESH—Life and Culture of Bangladesh
Michael Gonzalez, A State of Connecticut certified teacher, former Peace Corps Bangladesh volunteer, and current Asian Studies MA student is eager to join with teachers in bringing to life in the American classroom the culture and experience of day-to-day living in Bangladesh for students ranging from 5-9. He has prepared curriculum presentations on Bangladesh that offers an interactive experience that immerse students in Bangladeshi culture. He implements slides and other visual materials to bring Bangladesh into the classroom. Class topics include the following: Transportation in Bangladesh, and Children in Bangladesh, Life in Bangladesh: Cities and Villages. Classes are designed to build student empathy as well as increase their knowledge of foreign life and culture.
Class /course unit matches: Bangladesh, Social Studies on (South) Asia, South Asian culture.
Class /course unit matches: Bangladesh, Social Studies on (South) Asia, South Asian culture.
INDIA--Oral History, Migration, Ethnic Minorities and World Music Interactive Presentations
Barbara C. Johnson, an Anthropologist, former Associate Professor at Ithaca College, experienced Grades 2-14 presenter, is currently a visiting scholar (2008-2009) at the South Asia Program. Barbara offers an interactive ethnography of Jewish communities in India. She is available for middle and high school presentations, using slides and video excerpts to discuss the history, life, music and culture of Jewish communities that have migrated from the South Asia region from the Middle East centuries ago, initially making their lives in India, and in the 1950s and 1960’s returning to Israel to settle and make new lives in that country.
Class /course unit matches: Barbara is interested in doing presentations which she can orient appropriately towards your course units on interviewing techniques anthropologists use for oral history projects (she is the author of just such an oral history book), or orient her interactive presentation for your class units on: migration, ethnic minorities, or world music research—all using the Jews of India as her example.
Class /course unit matches: Barbara is interested in doing presentations which she can orient appropriately towards your course units on interviewing techniques anthropologists use for oral history projects (she is the author of just such an oral history book), or orient her interactive presentation for your class units on: migration, ethnic minorities, or world music research—all using the Jews of India as her example.
INDIA—Cooking Class
Emme Edmunds, Cornell Development Sociology graduate student and a long time Ithacan is willing to teach simple recipes from different regions India with your class in an interactive and culturally enriching class session. This would be accompanied by some basic Hindi language examples, including a few phrases and the spellings of students names in Devanagri script, and some stories about the cultures and religions in selected regions. These are geared for any level K-12.
Available: Fall 2008, Spring 2009, except during exam periods
Class /course unit matches: Social Studies, cooking classes or clubs, cultural enrichment programs
Available: Fall 2008, Spring 2009, except during exam periods
Class /course unit matches: Social Studies, cooking classes or clubs, cultural enrichment programs
INDIA—Dance Presentations or mini-workshops
INDIA—Manipuri Dance (Northeastern India)
Ms. Sunita Rajkumari, a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at Cornell University is a scientist with the Manipur Remote Sensing Application Center from Manipur, a remote state in the Himalayan Mountains and foothills of Northeast India. She is interested in giving presentations on this unique region in India by sharing information about Manipuri culture, history, religion, ethnic diversity, the current political climate, and the unique biodiversity of the region. Ms. Rajkumari has a wealth of expertise related to natural resource management and has a short documentary she made on the Loktak Lake, a “designated wetland of international importance” by the Ramsar list of Wetlands of International Importance. Ms. Rajkumari offers a short demonstration of traditional Manipuri dance as part of her presentations and is interested in offering classes to young people as part of a study of traditional dance expressions.
Class /course unit matches: Dance, Music, Traditional Cultures and cultural enrichment programs.
Class /course unit matches: Dance, Music, Traditional Cultures and cultural enrichment programs.
DANCE—Odissi Dance (Central East Coast India)
Durga Bor, Visiting Dance Lecturer at Cornell (2008-2009), offers a multimedia program for students of all ages, which includes classical Indian dance in the form of a performance, lecture-demonstration and/or workshop for K-12 and Post-Secondary levels 13-16.
Class /course unit matches: Music, Dance or Social Studies courses, cultural enrichment programs, school assembly programs, or as part of a school-wide festival of international culture or study of India or Asia.
Class /course unit matches: Music, Dance or Social Studies courses, cultural enrichment programs, school assembly programs, or as part of a school-wide festival of international culture or study of India or Asia.