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CED NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2005

Here's wishing you a joyous & prosperous new year! This is the year's first newsletter starting with ....

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OUR NEW YEAR OFFER
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CED is offering an extra 6 months of free membership for those who renew their membership by 15^th February 2005. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss!

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GOVINDPUR IV
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As most NGOs are involved in post Tsunami work, Govindpur IV has been postponed to 5th December 2005. The discussion and debate is on.. Join in if you are looking for a detailed in depth discussion on major issues facing the NGO sector today. register in the website: http://www.govindpur.com/

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IN SUPPORT OF
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EK ALAG MAUSAM, feature film on the life & condition of HIV/AIDS patients in India by long time activist film maker K P Sasi is being released in various theatres in Mumbai, Chennai and Cochin. We wish the film all success and ask you to see the film on its release.. and . .. For further information about the film, please check the following website:
http://www.visualsearch.org/ekalagmausam.htm or write to: K.P. Sasi @ sasi36@rediffmail.com

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All undergraduate students who have used CED’s research facilities for their various assignments and projects, during the year 2004, are invited to submit their final product, for the Best Assignments Scholarship. Ten assignments will be selected based on their quality in terms of content and analysis. Those whose assignments are chosen will be entitled to:

Free membership at CED for the next three years
Rebate on all photocopying and computer reference use charges at CED
Expenses of upto Rs. 5000/ incurred during a visit to any Peoples Movement or NGO in India.
Citation and publication of assignment in CED’s DOCPRINTS.

The last date for the submission of assignments is 28th February 2005

For further details contact Jacintha at jacintha@doccentre.net

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OUTREACH SCHOLARSHIP FOR SOCIAL WORK GRADUATES
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CED invites applications from the graduating students of Social Work Colleges, who on graduating this year wish to spend three months in Documentation, Study and Reflection. Under the scholarship, you will visit three NGOs or Peoples’ Organisation and document their work as well as spend two months at CED doing secondary documentation work.

The Scholarship is for three months from May 2005 to July 2005. The Scholarship provides an honorarium of Rs. 18,000/-. Plus support for simple boarding and lodging while on tour to the NGOs and surface travel expenses on actuals.

For more details click here

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EDUCATION PROJECT
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We are presently preparing Dossiers on the 93rd Amendment- Fundamental Right to Education and on the National Curriculum Frameworkand NCERT. These will be soon put up as docswebs. The next dossiers in line are on Alternatives in Education and The Status of Government Schools. If there are any books or reports you would like to suggest on these topics or if you would like to contribute in anyway to this documentation effort, please contact Tanvi (tanvi@doccentre.net)

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NEW PUBLICATIONS FROM CED
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Reproduced for public debate & education DOCPRINTS on
The Discovery of Poverty By Wolfgang Sachs
The Political Culture of Fascism By Jairus Banaji
Price: Rs.10/- per copy. Discounts for bulk purchase for training programmes

DEVELOPMENT DIGEST DD08 -- is in the press..

It features
1. Time will tell: The Optimism of Uncertainity by Howard Zinn
`The Struggle for more Freedom
Justice is always an uphilll Task
N. Ram interviews Noam Chomsky

2. Global Economics
Time Banking Conference
September 14, 2004 by Sean Gonsalves

3. Bite Back! The Return of the Co-operative
The Story So Far by New Internationalist

4. Alternatives to Economic Globalisation:
A Better World Is Possible, 2nd Edition
The International Forum on Globalisation reviews.

5. Refining Politics
Globalisation and New Politics
Of Micro-Movements by D L Sheth

6. Tongue-in-Cheek
Tower of Gabble by P. Sainath

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NEW ADDITIONS TO THE CED LIBRARY
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This month, among the new additions to our library are quite a few books on education. This is because we have actively been collecting material on Education in India for the dossiers and docswebs we are making on the subject.

BOOKS ON EDUCATION

Annual Report 2003 2004, Department of Elementary education and Literacy, Department of Secondary and Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India [R.N00.30]
The Saffron Agenda in Education - An Expose, SAHMAT, [R.N20.6]
Saffronised and Substandard - A Critique of the New NCERT Textbooks, SAHMAT, [B.M10.S52]
Communalisation of Education - The Assault on History, SAHMAT [B.M10.S50]
Plagiarised and Communalised - More on the NCERT Textbooks, SAHMAT [B.M10.S51]
A Unique Revolution - Children Lead the way to Decentralisation and Civil Society Participation, The Concerned for Working Children, [R.N21.32]
Education Denied - Costs and Remedies, Tomasevski, Katarina, [B.N00.T1]
Universalisation of school education, the road ahead, Niranjanaradhya VP, 2004 [B.N21.N3]
Different Approaches for Achieving EFA - Indian Experience, UNESCO, [B.N00.U2]
Getting Children Back to School - Case Studies in Primary Education, Vimala Ramachandran, [B.N21.R2]
Lifelines by David Gribble, 2004- Libertarian Education [B.N00.G3]
Social Exclusion and Education, Jeebanlata Salam, [B.N21.S4]
The Child's Language And The Teacher - A Handbook, Krishna Kumar [B.N20a.K2]
Art: The basis of education by Devi Prasad, National Book Trust [B.P30.P6]
Community Participation and empowerment in primary education, Ed R Govinda and Rashmi Diwan, 2003 Sage [B.N21.G2]
Quality specifications in schools- UNICEF 2004 [R.N21.29]
Education and Children with Special Needs - From Segregation to Inclusion, Hegarty, Seamus and Alur, Mithu, [B.D54.H1]
The Awakening of Intelligence, Krishnamurti, J, [B.L40.K13]
The Hindu Speaks on Education, The Hindu, [B.N00.H13]
Resisting the Culture of Schooling Series 1-5, Shikshantar
Selected Educational Statistics 2002-2003 (Abstract), Planning, Monitoring and Statistics Division, Department of Secondary and Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India 2004, [B.N00.P5]
Constructing School Knowledge - An Ethnography of Learning in an Indian Village, Sarangapani, Padma M, [B.N20.S5]

... And More.

Other Books:

1. RURAL LANDLESS WOMEN LABOURERS PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS By Balakrishnan A (A22.B.3.)

3. BIOTECHNOLOGY AND FOOD SECURITY By Dass Sujata K (G74a.D.2.)

4. LOST WORLDS – INDIAN LABOUR AND ITS FORGOTTEN HISTORIES By Joshi, Chitra (H20.J.1.)

5. URBAN SLUMS AND DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY By Upreti H C (J10a.U.2.)

6. EMPOWERMENT OF SCHEDULED CASTES By Naidu R Vijaya Krishna (L16.N.2.)

8. THEOLOGY OF A CLASSLESS SOCIETY By Osthathios Geevarghese Mar (L40.O.3.)

11. ISLAM: CHALLENGES IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY By Engineer Asghar Ali (L40b.E.4.)

12. RACIAL HEGEMONY – GUJARAT GENOCIDE By Mike Paul (L53a.M.3.)

13. STRUGGLING TO BE HEARD: SOUTH ASIAN MUSLIM VOICES By Sikand Yoginder (L61.S.5.)

14. AMBEDKAR ON MUSLIMS By Teltumbde Anand (L61.T.3.)

15. COMMUNICATION MEDIA AND SOCIAL CHANGES By Chandra Ramesh (P60.C.3.)

16. GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS AND DEVELOPMENT By URA KARMA AND GALAY KARMA (Q00.U.2.)

16. WHO’S WHO IN CSR IN INDIA – A RESOURCE GUIDE – 2004 By Mehta Malini (Q55.C.1.)

17. ISSUES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS By Chandra Ramesh (U10e.C.1.)

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BOOKS ON SALE AT CED
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Mother Forest by Bhaskaran, Price: Rs75/- Kali Publications.
In January 2003,tribals 'illegally' occupied a part of the wildlife sanctuary in Mathunga, Kerala. Forcible eviction by police resulted in the death of tribal and injuries to others. Leading the tribal resistance was Janu, a young woman who had mobilized their protest at the government's failure to honour their commitment to the tribals: the restoration of land alienated from them for "development". Dispossessed of their lands, the adivasis feared they would lose their identity and their livelihood.

Killing Days by Joya Mitra, Price: Rs 200/- Kali Publications.
Joya Mitra recalls the less fortunate ones, the ones she left behind. These are portraits of women who overstepped the boundaries of social norms sometimes unknowingly, but most banished from society and kept in prisons for 'Correction'.

Peace Work by Radhika Coomaraswamy, Price: Rs 375/- Kali Publications.
This volume addresses the need to understand both the in-depth reality of each particular conflict site-Sri Lanka, the Philippines,Japan,Ireland,Yugoslavia,South Africa the Indian subcontinent-and also the experiences of women peace-workers across these different sites in a comparative perspective.

Check out the full list here ..