Outreach Resources for K-16 teachers
The Consortium for South Asian Studies' outreach efforts focus on K-16 teachers. We can offer lesson plans, a book club, a costume closet, and can provide speakers or guests for relevant classroom events. We also work with World View to offer a teacher study tour to India and have a visual exhibit available for loan. If you have any educational needs relating to South Asia that aren't covered in the links below, just contact NCCSAS outreach coordinator Alicia Wallace Jones (alicia.jones@duke.edu). We'll be happy to work with you to meet your educational needs!
Curriculum Development:
Book Club: Come read with us! The book club links your class to books with South Asian characters and themes. Pick up one of our suggestions, or one of your own, and we can support your class as they read about South Asia.
Workshop: Attend our workshop to meet other teachers and learn how to bring South Asia into your classroom.
Tasveer Ghar (House of Pictures): Co-founded by Duke faculty member Sumathi Ramaswamy, Tasveer Ghar ("House of Pictures") is a digital resource for South Asian popular visual culture.
Study Tour Program for Teachers:
Study Tour: The Consortium for South Asian Studies promotes study tours in South Asian countries for teachers. These experiences provide an immersive travel experience that helps provide an experiential context for teaching about global and regional themes. The trips include visits to important historical and cultural sites, as well as visits to Indian schools and/or universities. Please click the link above for more information about past and future trips.
Material Lending Resources:
Clothes Closet: The center has a closet of South Asian clothing and accessories from the region. These items may be checked out by local schools for use in lesson plans, theatrical productions, and other activities that have a tactile component. (see link for full inventory)
Visual Exhibit: The center has an extensive collection of photographs from South Asia that can be checked out for mounting exhibits in your school.
Online External Thematic Resources:
World View: Based at the UNC-Chapel Hill, World View is an organization that provides activities and resources for training teachers to address the complexity of an increasingly global world in their classrooms. Their website provides information about upcoming activities, as well as global-themed lesson plans, etc.
The Town of Nathadwara: From the University of Washington's South Asia Studies, an online presentation on artists and art in the Rajasthani town of Nathadwara. Addresses Hindu religious iconography, cultural geography, and an art lesson!
Tasveer Ghar (House of Pictures): Co-founded by Duke faculty member Sumathi Ramaswamy, Tasveer Ghar ("House of Pictures") is a digital resource for South Asian popular visual culture.
A Virtual Village: From Wesleyan University, this website provides a virtual orientation to Arampur, a village in the state of Bihar in northern India. Addresses physical and cultural geography, and provides extensive information on the various aspects of the village.
UVA teaching resources: An extensive list of teaching resources developed by the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia.
-- Duke Masters in International Development Student, Sharif Azami, speaking about his home country of Afghanistan at Franklin Academy, a charter school in Wake Forest, NC, as part of the 7th grade class's unit on the book Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
World View: Based at the UNC-Chapel Hill, World View is an organization that provides activities and resources for training teachers to address the complexity of an increasingly global world in their classrooms. Their website provides information about upcoming activities, as well as global-themed lesson plans, etc.
The Town of Nathadwara: From the University of Washington's South Asia Studies, an online presentation on artists and art in the Rajasthani town of Nathadwara. Addresses Hindu religious iconography, cultural geography, and an art lesson!
Tasveer Ghar (House of Pictures): Co-founded by Duke faculty member Sumathi Ramaswamy, Tasveer Ghar ("House of Pictures") is a digital resource for South Asian popular visual culture.
A Virtual Village: From Wesleyan University, this website provides a virtual orientation to Arampur, a village in the state of Bihar in northern India. Addresses physical and cultural geography, and provides extensive information on the various aspects of the village.
UVA teaching resources: An extensive list of teaching resources developed by the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia.
-- Duke Masters in International Development Student, Sharif Azami, speaking about his home country of Afghanistan at Franklin Academy, a charter school in Wake Forest, NC, as part of the 7th grade class's unit on the book Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson