David, Priti
(2021)
Using stories to sensitise the pari experience.
Learning Curve (9).
pp. 78-80.
ISSN 2582-1644
Abstract
When summer temperatures are rising in Odisha
and the grass is sparse in the grazing grounds,
buffalo herders have to look far and wide to feed
their animals. To talk about rural India in a city
primary school, we began by showing photos of
a herd of buffaloes swimming across the river to
greener pastures; how the herdsmen take great
care with their animals, even carrying the small
ones themselves. As expected, the story of buffalo
migration and a calf calling for its mother in deep
waters invariably strike a chord with young
children who instantly identify with the calf. We use
this story (Swimming to migrate in Odisha) to draw
them into how dairy farmers in India care for their
animals whose milk could be that which they drank
that morning. The learning goes beyond that.
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