Gijubhai Badheka Chair

Objectives

• To provide advanced Centers of learning, where Anganwadi Workers, Elementary Education Teachers, Child Care & Protection duty holders, scholars and students would enrich and advance studies and research to understand, assess, disseminate and implement the ideas and thoughts of Shri Gijubhai Badheka.
• To engage in research and in turn contribute to the advancement of knowledge in the area of the study particularly in the discipline of Elementary Education, Holistic Child Development, Language, Child Rights, Philosophy, Human Rights, Sociology, Social Work, Law, and other disciplines.
• To publish the outcome of the research studies in the form of scholarly articles in the peer- reviewed indexed journals from the UGC-CARE list and also as books published by the reputed national and international publishers having strong peer- reviewed policy.
• To develop appropriate methodologies to translate and transmit Shri Gijubhai Badheka's ideas of elementary education and holistic development of children into practical propositions and policy instruments.

Functions

The Chair will serve as the Centre of learning and research subjects containing Gijubhai Badheka's works and philosophy. It will further elaborate on the present issues in elementary Education and early child care Education. In pursuance of the above objectives, the Chair will have the following academic function;

• To conduct research on early child care and Education, organize lectures, seminars, symposia, workshops, and other similar academic activities pertaining to the Education of the children.
• To engage in field research work related to the contemporary problems, issues and challenges in early child care and Education.
• To initiate quality research to be reflected by publications in the form of scholarly articles in the peer-reviewed journals (indexed and/or in the UGC-CARE list) and books/ book chapters by the chair every year.
• To supervise doctoral students in research in accordance with thrust areas of the chair.
• To design and execute short-term awareness and capacity-building programmes for the teachers in early child care and Education on the objectives, including the thrust areas of the chair.
• To coordinate and provide a think tank on the thrust areas of the Chair, drawing expertise and inputs from academic experts of other sectors like Government and National and International organizations including NGOs.
• To provide a forum for research policy level dialogues, discussion, meetings.
• To publish the proceedings of the lectures/seminars/symposia organized by the chair in the form of an edited book.

Past Events

• “138 th Birth Anniversary Celebration of Shri Gijubhai Badheka” from 1 st to 15 th November 2023 through virtual mode.
• Three Days workshop on “Shri Gijubhai Badheka Sahitya Punahmudran - Republishing of Shri Gijubhai Badheka’s literature Work” at Children’s Research University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat; from 6 th to 8 th November 2023
• Three Days Workshop on “Gijubhai Sathe Vachanyatra – Re-reading Gijubhai Badheka” at Kocharab Ashram, Ahmedabad, Gujarat; from 6 th to 8 th October 2023
• Two Days Workshop on ‘Bal Varta (children’s Story) Training’ at Shri Dakshinamurty Bal Adhyapan Mandir, Bhavnagar, Gujarat; from 28 th to 29 th August 2023

Upcoming Events

• Publication of Book “Gijubhai Sathe ShikshanYatra” – a compilation of Shri Gijubhai Badheka’s Literature work for Teachers, Parents, and Children
• Publication of Book on “Bal Varta (Children’s Stories)”, and “Bal Kavya (Children’s Poems)”
• Review and Reprint of Shri Gijubhai’s Bal Sahitya

Staff, Gijubhai Bhadeka Chair

Chair Professor

Dr. T.S. Joshi
Former Director, G.C.E.R.T., Government of Gujarat

Chair Research Fellow

Dr. Bhavini L. Parmar
M.Sc., M.Ed., NET & GSET (Education), Ph.D. (Education)