Masterclass

The Bachpan Manao Masterclasses are one-hour online sessions designed to offer practical ideas and tools that you can use right away. Each session provides real, on-the-ground solutions, including programmatic strategies that have worked, skills to enhance your work, and free public resources you can access.

You’ll also hear from those who implement these ideas: program designers, researchers, educators, frontline workers, community members, and parents.

In every masterclass, you can expect to leave with: 
✅ A real-world idea you can apply to your own context
✅ A new skill or resource to support your work
✅ Fresh insights from people working directly on the ground

Come ready to learn and connect, with something valuable to take back with you!

Make ECD Fit Into Life

Author(s):
Shreya Bhardwaj, Dost Education

In this masterclass, Shreya Bhardwaj, Education Lead at Dost Education, explores how early childhood development can be designed to fit within the realities of family life rather than added on top of it. Drawing from four provocations, the session looks at how everyday routines, relationships and objects can become opportunities for Talk, Care and Play, while questioning assumptions about caregivers, parenting and fathers' roles.

WHAT TO EXPECT / WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Fit, Don't Add

Understand how to make ECD fit into everyday family life, and practise redesigning an activity so it happens within an existing routine, without adding extra time.

Question Assumptions

Identify and question assumptions embedded in common parenting and ECD messages.

Reframe Fathers

Reframe fathers as caregivers in their own right, rather than as helpers or supporters of mothers.

Spot Everyday Moments

Develop a lens for identifying Talk, Care and Play opportunities in ordinary routines and objects.

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Author(s):
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Author(s):
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Author(s):
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Author(s):
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Author(s):
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