Joint venture: Children’s, teachers’ fest next month
The entry to the three-day festival is free for all school systems of Islamabad and Punjab. PHOTO: FILE
The 14th Children’s Literature Festival (CLF) along with the Teachers’ Literature Festival (TLF) will take place at the Federal College of Education (FCE) on May 2 and 3.
The CLF is being organised by the Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), the Oxford University Press (OUP) in collaboration with the Open Society Foundations (OSF) and the FCE.
While speaking at a press conference on Friday, ITA Director Programmes and CLF founder Baela Raza Jamil, Managing Director OUP Ameena Saiyid and others said that the CLF aims to provide a platform to help develop and promote reading habit, creative writing and critical thinking in the young generation. They said that it was a social movement in response to low levels of learning among the children in Pakistan.
They said that the TLF, which will be held on May 1, will engage 2,000 teachers on core concepts and practices of CLFs, encouraging them to make their classrooms and schools implement them practically.
The entry to the three-day festival is free for all school systems of Islamabad and Punjab.
“Through the TLF and the CLF, we hope to instil the skills required for the 21st century. We want children to develop a passion for reading and learn to love books,” said Saiyid.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 26th, 2014.