IARTEM rendez-vous webinar 12th February with Subir SHUKLA

Programme

1. Introduction by the moderator Andy SMART
2. Presentation of the PhD researchers group by Catherine AYME
3. PhD researchers presentations (10 minutes each)
   • Nikol Porubová, Pedagogy, University of Ostrava (Czech Republic)
   • Cristian Imbruniz, University of São Paulo (Brazil) and EHESS (France)
   • Aliénor Petiot, Information and Communication Sciences, LabSIC, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (France)
4. 30–45 minutes presentation by the keynote speaker: Subir Shukla, Principal Coordinator, Group Ignus:
   Developing High Quality, Affordable Textbooks in Low-Resource Environments – Challenges, Possibilities and Some Lessons from India
5. Moderated discussion, with questions from the PhD researchers, followed by questions from the audience.

Biographies

Subir Shukla, Principal Coordinator, Group IgnusSubir works on improving the quality of education systems, with a focus on the needs of under-served children. He studied and taught Literature at the University of Delhi before moving to central India to live in a tribal village for 6 years (from 1986) while working on primary education in remote areas.  Later, he was Editor, National Centre for Children’s Literature, National Book Trust, India, tasked with the development of children’s literature in different languages and promoting reading in India.Over the next thirty years, he worked extensively with government education systems, including as Chief Consultant-GoI (DPEP, 1995-98) and Educational Quality Advisor to GoI (2009-11) when he led the development of the Quality Framework for the Right To Education. He has been a resource person for  more than 30 state governments in India and several national governments in Asia and Africa, on curriculum, textbooks, and teacher development, especially on large scale. This has led to facilitating the development of hundreds of textbooks, in over 20 languages, and working with systems on supporting their implementation in classrooms.Subir is the co-author of Child Development and Education in the Twenty-First Century, published by Springer, Singapore in 2019.

Nikol Porubová is a PhD student in Pedagogy at the University of Ostrava (the Czech Republic) and also a lower secondary teacher. Her studies focus on educational media, especially their use. This semester she is going to Paris for a research internship.

Cristian Imbruniz is a PhD student in Philology and Portuguese Language at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). Currently, he is conducting a research internship at the Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France). His interests include the following topics: Portuguese language textbooks, publishers, history of education, and discourse theory.

Aliénor Petiot is a PhD student in information and communication studies at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (France) at the LabSIC. She is currently conducting research on digital textbooks, in collaboration with a French publishing house. Her work focuses on the technical aspects of digital textbooks and the evolution of the French educational publishing industry in the digital era.