{"id":6713,"date":"2008-03-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/26\/india-conference-for-educators-attracts-too-many-teachers\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T12:00:00","slug":"india-conference-for-educators-attracts-too-many-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/03\/26\/india-conference-for-educators-attracts-too-many-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"India Conference for Educators Attracts (Too) Many Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.indianewengland.com\/ME2\/dirmod.asp?sid=&#038;nm=&#038;type=Publishing&#038;mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&#038;mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&#038;tier=4&#038;id=3210F1F970D447279FF1211E284D8B95\">www.indianewengland.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSSETS, USA, March 24, 2008: More than half of the applicants who wanted to participate in the one-day workshop on India for teachers on March 3 could not be accommodated. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was incredible. We could have had twice as many people if we had the space,&#8221; said Peter Gilmartin, associate program director with Primary Source, a nonprofit that organized the workshop in cooperation with the South Asia Initiative at Harvard. &#8220;We had to turn away more than half the people who called us up as individuals&#8230; One teacher could come only because another teacher couldn&#8217;t come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A total of 37 educators from Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine attended the six-hour workshop, which included presentations on the core values of Hinduism, Islam in India and Mahatma Gandhi.&#8221;There is a real demand for programs on India, but there are not enough teachers available yet,&#8221; Gilmartin said, explaining the overwhelming interest the workshop received.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers asked about a diverse range of topics with genuine interest. During the workshop, a gap in knowledge about India among the teachers was evident. &#8220;I thought Jainism was a combination of Hinduism and Sikhism, is that true?&#8221; asked one teacher. &#8220;Is reincarnation connected to caste?&#8221; said another, and someone else inquired, &#8220;I understand there is a very close relationship between Hindus and animals, is that true?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been the most substantive experience [of learning about] India I&#8217;ve had,&#8221; a teacher said of the one-day workshop.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.indianewengland.com WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSSETS, USA, March 24, 2008: More than half of the applicants who wanted to participate in the one-day,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}