The National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020) is a significant public policy instrument for India, which was launched by the Indian government on 29 July 2020. It is the first education policy to be drafted in the new millennium and replaces the previous National Policy on Education, 1986. The NEP 2020 aims to reform the Indian education system by focusing on five pillars: Affordability, Accessibility, Quality, Equity, and Accountability. The policy enacts numerous changes in India’s education policy. With the adoption of NEP in the higher education sector, there is an increasing need for upgrading the teaching pedagogies, particularly in the areas of language and literature. In this context, the themed issue aims to reevaluate the existing language pedagogy in higher education critically and seeks to explore and frame new pedagogical approaches. We are including below some topics, which are not exhaustive or exclusive but suggestive:
- Methods and approaches to the blended mode
- Telecasting teaching in interactive mode from centralized portals
- Constructivist, collaborative, integrative, reflective, or inquiry-based learning
- Online training for teachers: reconsidering the MOOC courses
- New pedagogical approaches to teaching literature and languages
- Questioning English discipline: Going beyond the English barrier for other European languages and literature
- Making literature multidisciplinary: Incorporating other branches of arts and social sciences
- Formulating the ways and systems of formal and non-formal research in regular UG/PG courses
- Applying the applied aspects: Incorporating creative elements in the syllabi
- Honing of the skills in real-life situations outside the classrooms
- Removing the irrelevant: Reconsidering the contents of English literature
- Incorporating the methods of competitive examination in the curricula and syllabi
- Systematic use of ICT: Marking the relevant technology and tools and their implementation
- Exploring the productive and applied aspects as outcomes: incorporating tools from Media Studies: Gender, Caste and Religion
- Emphasis on removing discriminations and biases in the discipline
- Search for ways to implement values like understanding the IPR, social justice, care for animals and respect for the environment,
- Ethical use of AI tools in teaching-learning
Important Dates:
- Submission of abstracts/articles: November 15 2023
- Notification of acceptance: November 30 2023
- Submission of full paper: November 15 2023
- Publication: December 2023
Author’s Guidelines:
- Kindly submit the abstract of your paper in about 100-150 words (Times New Roman, 12) with 4-5 Keywords.
- After selecting your abstract, you are asked to submit your full-length article/ paper.
- Articles should be written in an MS Word file following the 8th edition of MLA style.
- Word Limits for the full paper: 2500-5000 words.
- Authors’ bio-note of around 100 words should be added at the end of the paper.
Submission:
Submit your paper to the Chief Editor, Mir Ahammad Ali at mir.goldenline@gmail.com
Further Details:
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Call for Papers: Volume 5, Number 1, 2023
Themed Issue on
“Futuristic Epistemology and Scientific Dimensions: Neo-perspectives in Science Fiction”
To be edited by
Niladri Mahapatra & Akasdip Dey
PG Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan
The Golden Line, a peer-reviewed magazine, is inviting scholarly papers on “Neo-perspectives in Science Fiction”. Science fiction, as a prose narrative form, allows social explorations and experimentations. Adding science to fiction is making it more interesting as science affirms that fiction can also negotiate with truth. So, the discourse of SF creates an interdisciplinary space for many new themes to be focused on and discussed in this issue.
The issue intends to focus on the following thematic areas; however, they are suggestive and not restrictive:
Suggested Topics:
- Truth and SF
- Postmodernism and SF
- Postcolonialism and SF
- Posthumanism and SF
- Aestheticism and SF
- Psychoanalysis and SF
- New Romanticism and SF
- Popular Culture and SF
- Punk Culture and SF
- Ecology, Climate Change and SF
- Politics and SF
- Translation Studies and SF
- Science and SF
- Religion and SF
- Utopia and Dystopia
- Alternate Reality
- Parallel Universe, Multiverse and Time Travel
- Aliens in SF
- Animals in SF
- Space and SF
- Gender and SF
- Robotics
- Science Fiction Film
- Science Fiction Comics
- Science Fiction Magazine
Important Dates:
- Submission of abstract: January 15, 2023
- Notification of acceptance: January 17, 2023
- Submission of full paper: February 05, 2023
[N. B. It is not obligatory to send the abstract within that day, author can also send the full paper (without sending the abstract) within 5th February.]
Author’s Guidelines:
- Kindly submit the abstract of your paper in about 100-150 words (Times New Roman, 12) with 4-5 Keywords.
- After the selection of your abstract, you are asked to submit your full-length article/ paper.
- Articles should be written in an MS Word file following the 8th edition of MLA style.
- Word Limits for the full paper: 2500-5000 words.
- Authors’ bio-note of around 100 words should be added at the end of the paper.
Submission:
- Submit your paper at guested.goldenline@gmail.com [add a CC to the Chief Editor, Mir Ahammad Ali at mir.goldenline@gmail.com]
Further Details:
- Visit Our Magazine site: https://goldenline.bhattercollege.ac.in