The Baha’i Chair for Studies in Development is organized this webinar to discuss the serious crisis facing children’s education in India in the wake of the year-long closure of schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The webinar seeks to engage academicians, educationists and policymakers in a deliberation on the kind of interventions needed at the level of policy and practice to bridge the widening learning gap that children face in the aftermath of the pandemic.
About the speakers:
The speakers for the webinar were Prof. Rohit Dhankar, Professor of Philosophy of Education, Azim Premji University; Prof. Poonam Batra, Department of Education, University of Delhi; Dr. Madhav Chavan, Co-Founder, Pratham Education Foundation and Payam Shoghi, Principal, RiverDale International Residential School, Pune.
