There is a huge gap between knowing the existence of social realities and understanding the impact each of the social realities creates in our very own lives. The 10-day rigorous participatory learning opened up all the curtains and bought many social issues on the forefront for the students of GN Khalsa College. Through PUKAR’s short term course – ‘Karke Sikho’, students underwent a journey where they learned crucial concepts of self and participatory group work.
Our in-house facilitators, Neelima Swati Ambekar and Arvind Sakat , conducted an engaging session where students practiced ‘participatory leadership’ and learned to work with diverse teams while creating an enabling environment. In order to make students understand the minute details of social intersections like caste, class, gender, and disability; Dr. Rama Shyam, Ashish Shigwan and Sunil Gangavane conducted an activity-based session on Social Reality. To further enhance student’s critical lens, Dr. Anita Patil-Deshmukh conducted an interactive session on ‘Community-Based Participatory Action and Research (CBPAR)’. During her session, she gave immense importance to ‘Research Ethics’ and made students understand them through interesting case studies.
With various methodology which exists for community research, Dr. Aloke Thakore led the session specifically on Research Methodology and helped students practice different data collection methods. By the end of their journey, students were able to create their research proposal under the facilitation of Sunil Gagavane.
The intense knowledge-filled journey which students of GN Khalsa College experienced during their Diwali vacation was only possible because of our Resource Persons who gave their valuable time. Team PUKAR is happy to have them with us and want to show our gratitude by thanking each of them from the core of our hearts.
