What is the Rigour to Your Compassion?
August 12, 2022
In Part Two we discuss the limitations of anger, the potential for empathy instead if accompanied by rigour, and the underrated merits of using joy pedagogically.
From feminist pedagogies to critical approaches, teaching strategies and learning methods, we look at pedagogy as a living, breathing organism shaping learners’ abilities to take constructive action.
In Part Two we discuss the limitations of anger, the potential for empathy instead if accompanied by rigour, and the underrated merits of using joy pedagogically.
On May 19, 2022, a bench of the Supreme Court of India issued a directive recognising sex work as a profession, wherein the practitioners of sex work shouldn’t be penalised, harassed, incarcerated or punished if they are consenting adults.
Eight of us – four young teenage girls and four women – move about the room imagining ourselves in different places. Sometimes we are walking in open fields, sometimes we are catching the metro. Sometimes we are shrieking in glee and running through unexpected rain.
Since December of 2014, The Green Hub in Tezpur, Assam, has turned teachers, forest guards, footballers, field guides, students and youth-at-large, from across the varied landscapes of the north east of India, into documentary filmmakers.
In Konkani, we use the expression ‘she walked the city so much, she turned it to powder.’ Our mothers said it to shame us for bunking college, sitting behind some guy on his bike and roaming the city.
The Third Eye explores the role of science education in our expectations of public health, and how, as we turn into con-sumers of science rather than producers, we forget that sci-ence has stopped serving those that need it most.
T talks about the day the mosque across her house offered namaz for three deaths together, an unprecedented event that shook up her entire mohalla. S talks about her friend who lives down the lane, who is left orphaned after the recent passing of her mother.
“If everyone grew food on their balconies and terraces, we would have enough food to eat.” We are in a classroom, invited to sensitise urban students about rural India. The student’s statement drops like a silent bomb.
When a teacher asked her students to think about the concept of confinement the last thing she expected was for most of them to shoot videos of their mothers.
In cinema, the working woman is often managing the twin axes of shame and pride. What is the work she is supposed to do? What is she not? We take two cinematic pieces- which focus on women and work…