Tibetan Education: Theory & Praxis (Workshop)

PLEASE NOTE: For non-Columbia guests, registration is required to access the Morningside campus 24 hours prior to the event. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event). Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by Friday, April 10 for campus access.

Tibetan education is a topic of critical importance and its practice is profoundly transnational. This workshop brings leading scholars of Tibetan education as it is practiced in the People’s Republic of China and the diaspora, together with New York-based and other Tibetan educators working to further education in Tibetan language and cultural traditions. Themes of indigenous Land/environmental education, intergenerational transmission of ancestral knowledge, cultural preservation, language education, home-education, community-based learning, innovation and identity will be discussed in relation to their application in curriculum development and hands-on teaching/learning. We hope you will join us in these discussions!

Moderator: Lauran Hartley, Director, Modern Tibetan Studies Program; Adjunct Assistant Professor in Tibetan Literature, Columbia University

Speakers:

• Tashi Dekyid Monet, Columbia University
• Shamo Thar, University of Massachussets Amherst
• Tsepakjab Washul, University of Virginia
• Stuart Wright, University of Sheffield
• Chime Dolma, YindaYin Coaching
• Yumten Rinchen Tara, YindaYin Coaching

This event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Modern Tibetan Studies Program.