Designing educational products for better language absorption in APS

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About the Session:

In India, we have created a situation where our higher education institutions and workplace largely function in a non-native language, English. This has led to an aspiration for English medium schooling across all sectors of society. Thousands of children study in Affordable Private Schools in English without knowing English. The classroom is highly ineffective in delivering English proficiency. As much as this problem is unique to India, India is also the most multi-lingual society in the world. How did that come about? Does this hold the key to innovations in language pedagogy?

Speaker

Mr. C.P. Viswanath is an educator, musician and entrepreneur. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Karadi Path Education Company that is changing the way language is being taught in classrooms. He is also the Co-founder of Karadi Tales, India’s pioneering children’s audiobook venture, and Director of Pedagogy, Isha Vidhya Rural Schools which runs 9 schools and provides academic intervention in over 3000 Government schools. He has an international business experience of over 25 years, and is an accomplished Carnatic classical vocalist and mridangist, having given over 1000 public performances. As a proponent of alternative and creative education in India, he has been rethinking entrenched systems and faulty pedagogies. Mr. Viswanath writes and speaks on education and music. He has spoken at TEDx, CII and FICCI conferences, ICSE and CBSE National meets, and at the Royal Institution of Great Britain.