Katha Clubs for Colleges

Katha has been working very closely with colleges, teachers and students, for the past nearly five years. Workshops, courses and meetings have been conducted, seminars and exhibitions have been organized, all with the intent of creating a critical thinking so essential to become a global citizen.

A series of meetings with teachers from many colleges focussing on evolving a logical movement of the work that we had done together resulted in the formation of the Katha Clubs. Everyone present felt that it was time the students took control of their learning. Hence the Katha Clubs was a forum where the students decide how and what they want within a broad framework of the concerns, issues, ideas that they have been exposed to. The programme design provides latitude for each college to create its own set of activities relevant to its needs. Katha stays in the background and provides support, as and when required, as well as a minimal financial backing to facilitate the students in organizing their activities. The Katha Clubs will be housed in the various colleges that have expressed a keen interest in them. Katha will facilitate networking amongst them as well.

Katha Clubs have been launched in ten colleges. Each college has designed a programme that is most appropriate to their context. Katha is initiating the programme with a thirty hour course on Fiction Appreciation. This course is mandatory for all Katha Club members.

For information on how to start a Katha Club at your college ... pl. contact Gowri Palachandran at bestpractices@katha.org