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SHIKSHANTAR:
The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking Education
and Development
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RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT:
THE SEARCH FOR SWARAJ
November 20 – 26, 1999, Udaipur,
Rajasthan
TENTATIVE PROGRAMME
PRE-WORKSHOP
Required Readings:
- Helena Norberg Hodge. "The Pressure to Modernize and Globalize"
in J. Mander The Case Against the Global Economy.
- Human Development Report for Rajasthan (SID)
Day 1
Overview of the workshop 9:00 – 10:15
- Introductions of all participants
- Mind Map – what have the participants done to date?
- Modern Civilization vs. Tradition vs. Swaraj
- Programme Format and Questions/Issues to be addressed
- What spaces and opportunities are there for people to rethink development
and regenerate Swaraj in India? What kind of intellectual, emotional and spiritual
frameworks are required to better understand these efforts?
- What is the interface between these dynamic spaces and opportunities and
the State, Market and NGOs? How should these institutions be reconfigured
in order to better nurture these efforts?
- What are the emerging tensions and alliances between different rights-based,
resistance, or revivalist efforts?
- When do rights-based, resistance, or revivalist efforts translate into counter-development/regeneration?
- What are the individual and collective learning/unlearning processes required
to support counter-development/regeneration?
- What is our personal role in living the process of rethinking development?
Introduction to Development in the North/Rajasthan 10:30 – 12:00
What are the achievements of Development in the North/Rajasthan in the past
50 years?
What are the challenges for development in the 21st century?
- Interaction with K.S. Money (Rajasthan State Mines and Minerals)
Understanding of the Problem of Development 14:00 – 18:00
What does Development mean to NGOs working in southern Rajasthan?
What do NGOs see as the major Development issues in the 21st century?
- Interaction with Ashwini Paliwal (Astha), Vandini Mehta (Seva Mandir)
What does Development mean to academics in Rajasthan? What do academics see
as the major Development issues in the 21st century?
- Naresh Bhargava (sociologist, Udaipur University)
What has been the impact of globalization and economic liberalization on Development
and on the people?
Required Readings:
- Pyarelal. Towards New Horizons.
- S. Chandra. "The Oppressive Present."
- R. Heredia. "Interpreting Gandhi's Hind Swaraj."
- Jagran Jan Vikas Brochure
Optional Readings:
- D. Lodrick. "Rajasthan as a Region: Myth or Reality" in The
Idea of Rajasthan
- Astha. "Globalization and Poverty Report for Rajasthan"
- K.Saint. "The Aravallis: A Wasteland.
Day 2
Industrial Development 9:00 – 13:00
- Visit to government mining project in Jhamar-Kotra
- Visit to Village Community Affected by Mining
Towards Resistance and Revivalist Development 14:00 – 18:00
- Resistance Efforts: Water for Udaipur -- Mansiwakal and Jaisamand Dams
- Regeneration Efforts: Jagran -- Gunis (traditional healers)
Resistance Videos 19:30
- Bandit Queen
- The Narmada Diary and A Valley Rising
Required Readings:
- Vikram Akula. "Environment Resistance Movements."
- V. Tandon. "Bhoodan-Gramdaan Movement."
- A. Kothari. "Conservation Without Dispossession."
Day 3
Towards Regeneration of Alternative Development 9:00 – 18:00
- Gramdaan Movement: Field Visit to SEEDH Gramdaan village
- Government School/NFE center
Towards Regeneration 20:00
Video: Antarnaad
Required Readings:
- Dayalchand Soni. "An Illiterate’s Response to the Literacy Preacher."
- Krishna Kumar. "Listening to Gandhi."
- Makarand Paranjape. "Swadhyaya"
- Pawan Gupta. "Swadhyaya"
Day 4
Morning Free Time (required sleeping, shopping, relaxation, and self-regeneration!)
Critique of Factory-Schooling 13:30 – 14:00
Presentation by Sudesh Saint on Alternative Learning Models 14:00 – 15:00
Presentation by Dayalchand Soni on Gandhi’s Basic Education 15:00 –
16:30
Presentation on Learning for Swaraj 16:30 – 18:00
Required Readings:
- F. Apffel Marglin. "Counter-Development in the Andes."
- "Udaipur as a Learning City Process Proposal"
- D. Korten. "From Relief to Movements"
- B.D. Sharma. "Tide Turned: The Makings of Tribal Self-Rule."
Day 5
Simulation Exercise: Constructing
an Agenda of Counter-Development 9:00 – 13:00
Review of the Seminar and Connecting to the Personal 14:00 – 16:00