Every committee on education and educational reforms has recommended particular stress on the natural interactions between culture and education. Far from constituting two parallel fields, culture and education are intimately intermingled and should be developed symbiotically, so that culture can infuse and nourish education.

     The Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) stressing the continuing need to train personnel in all areas of cultural and educational development and advocating the existence of culturally well trained personnel for stimulating the participation of the people at large in cultural life, organises Seminars on “Cultural Education in Schools’. The participants of the Seminars are mainly Principals and Headmasters, whose teachers participate in The Centre for Cultural Resources and Training’s (CCRT) programmes and other administrators dealing with education in the States.

During the Seminar, discussions and lecture-demonstrations on various facets of ‘Cultural Education in Schools’ are organized. The CCRT aims at achieving the objectives of the integrated approach to education using a culture base to understand the carious school disciplines. The participants of the Seminar give recommendations for implementation of CCRT programmes in schools and for the community.

At times, special Seminars are organized for DEOs and Senior Administrators. The duration of the these Seminars are three days.

Seminar for Teachers from USA

Continuing its efforts in providing academic assistance in the training and research activities of other academic and professional bodies, the CCRT in collaboration with the United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI) have been organized Seminars on “Indian cultural Heritage”.

The purpose of the programmes are to give the US educators an exposure to different aspects of Indian Culture and Heritage such as (i) Land and its People (ii) Religion and Society (iii) Visual and Performing Arts, (iv) Economic development (v) Education, (vi) Women issues, (vii) Grassroots Movements and (viii) Indo-American Relations. The programmes also intended to enrich the educators about the present concerns and challenges in the country and preparedness of India to face the new millennium. The impetus of the seminars are to help the visiting educators to gain a better understanding of the country’s perspective of the future.

The programmes consists of two phases, namely (i) academic and (ii) field visits. The academic programmes of nearly one week are arranged by the CCRT devoted to study of India and it follows a multi-disciplinary approach involving formal lectures, interviews and discussions with prominent scholars and public personalities.

The Seminars are designed to enlighten the participants knowledge by intermixing academic and cultural experiences. Visits to schools, colleges and museums and rural areas are interspersed with demonstration of Indian dance and music. Interaction with the faculty of vocational and technical institutions (Indian counterparts of community colleges) are also arranged to give an understanding to the participants about the Indian system.