Badal Do calls on everyone to be a teacher through holistic, inclusive learning

A new learning initiative, Badal Do, was launched by a consortium of seven organisations at the Arts Council on Saturday. 

The initiative will engage with schoolteachers from a cross section of society and equip them with tools for inclusive learning.

In a presentation to introduce the initiative, the Badal Do team paid tribute to luminaries, including the late Professor Anita Ghulam Ali, Dr Akhtar Hameed Khan, Dr Hamida Khuhro, Dina Mistry, Bishop Lobo, Sister Mary Emily, Gool Minwalla, Fatima Surriya Bajiya and Professor Karrar Hussain, and explained that the move drew inspiration from those towering personalities.

The consortium partners answered questions about how by the use of experiential learning, interactive teaching methods using a mix of teacher training modules and creative approaches, collaborative spaces and mediums of theatre, arts and music, they aspired to involve everyone in the experience.

They mentioned that Badal Do aimed to take their vision and mission forward by piloting this initiative to foster plurality, inclusion, peace and tolerance in society, as well as good civic sense.

At the launch, Shallum Xavier, Khurram Iqbal and Alicia Dias performed the Badal Do anthem and the theatre group Zahrsss presented a motivational play.

The seven partners of Badal Do are AzCorp Entertainment, Society for International Education, Pak-American Cultural Centre, Teachers’ Resource Centre, Children’s Museum for Peace and Human Rights, the School of Writing and Mind Map Communications.

The launch was attended by a large number of schoolteachers, who had enrolled for the yearlong programme.