Making Early Childhood Curricula Culturally Responsive: Insights from Mobile Creches (Part 2/2)

Dr. Sheetal Nagpal explains how this civil society organization, founded in 1969 and active across India, provides early childhood services for children from marginalized communities, from construction sites and urban slums to remote tribal villages. Her focus is the curriculum the organization develops itself: play-based for the youngest, theme-based for three- to six-year-olds, and a bridge course for older children. Its core idea is that a curriculum has to be contextualized, rooted in the culture, language, and daily life of the children it serves. In tribal communities, for example, traditional songs and games become storybooks and play materials in the children's own dialects, while familiar tales are revisited and developed in diversity-responsive ways. Tune in to hear how this works in a country as diverse as India.

https://www.mobilecreches.org/