Gaen aur Seekhein /Learning through Harmonies is a Communities of Practice (COP) innovation implemented by ITA’s flagship program Pakistan Learning Festival (PLF)
Communities of Practice (COP) is a group of individuals and organisations working to create systemic change to raise children’s learning levels. COP is an initiative the of the Research for Improvement in Systems of Education (RISE) Program, a global research endeavour to understand how education systems in developing countries can overcome the Learning Crisis
Reclaiming Music for Social Emotional & Foundational Learning through Poems & Songs in mainstream education is a pilot in collaboration with RISE* Communities or Practice as a unique experiment on Foundational Learning.
We are committed to Foundational, Social Emotional & Holistic Learning through partnerships with the Government and the School and Literacy Departments (Sindh/Punjab) where Schools seek to:
- Revive poems/songs for Learning with Agency in Pakistan together with musicians/poets/educators & choirs
- Promote foundational learning actively through music, poetry, vocabularies/literacies, performing arts, maker art and craft as a valued/unique learning genre that is cross-disciplinary
- Select songs thematically and by grades and then align the selected songs with the National Curriculum of Pakistan (NCP), standards/student learning outcomes (SLOs) by subjects (to be refined as NCP is also under review)
- Create appropriate activities/worksheets and other interactive segments for the selected songs
- Design and conduct systematic pilot collaborative activities across selected schools govt/private schools (4), in both Lahore and Karachi (initially/ could with other willing schools in other geographies)
- Disseminate the outcomes during Learning Festivals, collaborating Schools & classrooms with evaluation forms
- Add the outputs/activities/songs on the PLF app (Gaen aur Seekein/Learning through Harmonies) for wider dissemination to the entire country with feedback loops
