Alumna Session: “Reflections on Bridging Pedagogy and Practice”

The Department of English Literature and Language, organised an online Alumna session titled “Reflections on Bridging Pedagogy and Practice” on March 17 2025. The guest speaker was Harshita Parihar, an alumna from the class of 2020. Harshita guided the students towards the journey of UGC- NET mainly emphasizing on PGDTE at English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), a 10 months diploma in teaching. She gave glimpses of her own journey, reflecting upon her shift from Science to Humanities, going for basic books, giving importance to linguistics etc.  She mentioned about her dissertation - “Gender and Education as a Socio-cultural, Economic and Linguistic Component” while recollecting about the course being multitasking as a major roadblock. She highly recommended the mixed method of teaching, including content and language integrated learning.