Learning Aid to help teach Devanagari Script to Bharwad Children


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Creator/Artist: Vinay Kumar

Category: Interaction Design

Document: P2 Project

Batch: 2022-2024

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2019-onwards

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Girish Dalvi


Detailed Description

This project focuses on empowering the semi-nomadic Bharwad community, known as 'Lal Gaay wale', by developing educational aids for learning the Devanagari script. Through participatory and non-participatory research, the study identified limited access to formal education among Bharwad children and leveraged the community’s artistic and craft skills to design interactive, script-based learning tools. These aids, tested within the community, fostered creativity, engagement, and a sense of ownership, inspiring members to create additional tools for numeracy and Hindi writing. The initiative not only enhanced literacy but also demonstrated how local crafts and resources can be effectively used to design contextualised, community-driven educational materials in resource-limited settings.