Call for Participants | Fifth Annual Summer Course on Teacher Education June 2026 Batch
Weaving Inclusion for Equitable Futures: Threads across School and Teacher Education
Human societies thrive when rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion, which support democratic participation and collective wellbeing. In education, inclusion goes beyond accommodating differences and focuses on meaningful participation, belonging, and justice. In India, shaped by intersections of caste, class, gender, disability, language, religion, and geography, inclusion remains both essential and challenging. Despite increasing policy attention, unclear understandings of inclusion and limited opportunities for critical reflection often make it difficult for inclusive practices to become a meaningful part of classrooms and teacher education.
Inviting teacher educators working in higher education institutions to join our Summer Course on the theme, ‘Weaving Inclusion for Equitable Futures: Threads across School and Teacher Education’.
The Fifth Annual Summer Course aims to create reflective dialogue on inclusive pedagogies, teacher preparation, and equitable educational futures. It envisions to bring together teacher educators from across India to engage with critical questions of inclusion, equity, pedagogy, and teacher education through dialogue, workshops, collaborative inquiry, and reflective engagement.
The Summer Course will be conducted in a face-to-face format over six days and will bring together teacher educators from Higher Education Institutions across India.
Designed as a seminar-workshop space, the course will include talks, discussions, collaborative inquiry, reflective engagements, curriculum explorations, and field-based experiences. Participants will engage with themes such as conceptualisations of inclusion, inclusive pedagogy, curriculum and institutional practices, differentiated instruction, universal design for learning, accommodations, assistive technologies, and the lived experiences of children, parents, teachers, and communities.
The course emphasises dialogue, reflection, and collective learning, encouraging participants to critically examine their own pedagogical beliefs, institutional contexts, and practices while engaging with diverse perspectives and experiences.
- Interested participants must be currently serving in a teacher education programme at a recognised higher education institution.
- Participating institutions are requested to fill in the google form (registration link) with a statement of purpose (SOP) of about 250 words stating your interests and the relevance of topics to be explored in the Summer Course for your current work.
- The selection will be based on the SOPs submitted.
- Only one member will be allowed to participate from an institution.
The selected participants will be provided travel reimbursement to the extent of 3‑tier AC train fare from their nearest railway station (excluding local conveyance). The University will provide food and lodging for the duration of the summer course. The University will cover the cost of the field trip organised during the course. However, the cost for food and entry tickets to the places with not be covered by the university.
Dates: 29 June — 4 July 2026
Deadline for application: 30 May 2026
Contact details: Email — teachte@apu.edu.in | WhatsApp — 8860896211 | Visit us at Azim Premji University
Course Faculty
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Amman Madan
Amman’s research interests are currently in education as a way to deal with social stratification and identity politics and in social theory. Amman did his MSc in Anthropology with Divyadarshi Kapoor from Punjab University, Chandigarh and then did his MPhil and PhD with Avijit Pathak at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems at…
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Ankur Madan
Ankur Madan is the Director of the School of Education.Ankur joined the Azim Premji University in 2013. Prior to that she has worked in the University of Delhi, The American University of Kuwait, and Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore.Her Masters and doctoral degrees are from the University of Delhi in the areas of Human…
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Aruna Jyothi Vakkalanka
Aruna Jyothi started her career in education as a school teacher. She comes with many years of teaching experience – has taught in 2 of the Krishnamurti Foundation Schools, The School – KFI, Chennai and Rishi Valley School, Madanapalle and in International schools such as Pathways World School, G.D. Goenka World School and Indus International…
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Bhuvaneswari B
Bhuvaneswari has a Masters in Speech Language Pathology from the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore and an MPhil and PhD from the Department of Studies in Psychology, University of Mysore. Her clinical work and teaching covers various domains such as early intervention, parent training, emergent literacy, language acquisition and disorders, linguistics, learning…
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Garima Gupta
Garima Gupta began her professional journey as a school teacher after completing her BElEd from the University of Delhi. Her early classroom experiences, particularly her work with children with visual impairment and learning disabilities, shaped her enduring engagement with inclusive education. During this phase, she developed resource rooms, designed differentiated worksheets, and created experiential curricula…
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Madhusudhan Ramesh
After working as a design researcher in the healthcare sector for six years, Madhusudhan began his work in education in 2014 with STiR Education — a teacher-training NGO where he designed and ran programmes in classroom pedagogy, school leadership, and teacher motivation.Drawing from his experience of being a person with dyslexia, Madhusudhan started working in the area…
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Rajashree S
Rajashree joined Azim Premji University in 2010 as the first faculty member and was part of the core group that worked together to start academic programs at the University. She is currently a member of the Curriculum and Pedagogy Committee. She has taught at various levels of education: school, undergraduate programs and postgraduate programs. Prior…
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Rishikesh B S
Rishikesh B S is currently the Registrar of Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.
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Shipra Suneja
Shipra Suneja is Associate Professor at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India. She teaches courses in Early Childhood Care and Education and Child Development. Besides this, she has been involved in curriculum development and teacher education in ECCE with government and non-profit organisations. She did her PhD from Delhi University studying children’s experiences of their ecology…