Fulbright Hays 2023

2023 YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA SHORT-TERM HINDI LANGUAGE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

Call for Applications

The Yuva Hindi Sansthan and the Hindi Program at New York University offer a unique opportunity to study, improve, and develop Hindi languages skills and engage in collecting, organizing topic based audio, visual and textual materials as resources for developing final thematic curriculum documents for Hindi learners.

To Apply:

Please go to https://tinyurl.com/FullbrightHays23
Applicants are also required to submit a short essay (500 words) in Hindi or English about career goals and how this program may impact future career.
Please email your essay to: aojha2008@gmail.com
The online application and the essay in Word/PDF must be submitted by August 15th, 2023.

Questions: Please don’t hesitate to contact Ashok Ojha at 732-318-9891 or email via aojha2008@gmail.com

For eligibility criteria see Flyer below and scroll below for more details.

Program Details

Who is Eligible?

Citizens, nationals or permanent residents of the United States, who are:

Please go to faculty members who teach modern foreign languages or area studies at an IHE,
Applicants are also required to submit a short essay (500 words) in Hindi or English about career goals and how this program may impact future career.
teachers in elementary or secondary schools,
experienced education administrators responsible for planning, conducting or supervising programs in Hindi or a modern foreign language or areas studeies at the elemntary, secondary or postsecondary levels, or
graduate students, or juniors or seniors in an IHE, who plan teaching careers in modern foreign languages or area studies.

Proposed Dates (subject to DOE approval)
Phase I: Pre-departure online orientation: Dec-Jan 2024
Phase II: Study Tour: Feb 26-Mar 27, 2024
Phase III: Online developing teaching materials: April-May 2024.

Program Summary

The scope of the project is to explore how members of various Indian communities think or talk rooted in ancient traditions and textual sources. The objective to introduce new theme-based Hindi learning materials about mindful lifestyles and wellness ideas traditionally practiced in India. The program participants will collect information, record individual and community insights about practices and perspectives related to contentment, mindful lifestyles and wellness in order to develop instructional materials and thus expand existing curricula. The goal is to create an instructional platform that will support the teaching of traditional mindful practices and perspectives more consistently and more cohesively in the Hindi and South Asian Studies classrooms in the U.S., based on focused information and well-designed instructional materials. The program participants will learn from lectures and selected readings of primary and secondary resources, they will make observations and discuss with local native speakers common practices and perspectives related to the different dimensions of mindfulness and wellness. Included are (a) physical, (b) economic, (c) social, (d)emotional, (e) psychological, (f) environmental well-being, (g) life- and domain-specific contentment.

Our initial research demonstrates that contentment is an important component of mindfulness, which has a unique local dimension. For the purpose to make the project initially implementable and to be able to unpack the theme, we will consider contentment as a cornerstone concept. In addition, we will explore several other concepts and cultural factors, which we will explain later, such as certain contextually defined language functions and uses, the idea of home and family, identity, arts, etc. The program consists of pre-departure and post-tour online work (held on 5 Saturdays 10am- 2pm December, 2023-January, 2024 and 5 Saturdays April-May 2024). The study tour includes the following locations and foci through lectures and activities: mindful and wellness G So lectures and activities at the 'Arsh Vidya Gurukulum" in Rishikesh: measuring contentment and Sc happiness, Lucknow University; legends and iconic places, Kolkata; balance in life through ( Madhubani art in Bihar, and the traditional practices and perspectives in Upanishadic and Buddhist texts at Benares University and Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies.

Restrictions on Participants
Eligible candidates who have not previously received a Fubright award will get preference: Candidates not retiring within the next 1-2 years will get preference: Individuals who are not currently employed ful-time are not eligible.

Travel as a Group
Participants are required to remain with their respective programs throughout the duration of the program. Travel outside of the program is prohibited. Participants are achised against visting their family or friends during the Study Tour, At the end of the overseas phase, participants are required to return to the U.S, with their program. There are no exceptions to this requirement.

The program is open to all U. S. based K-12, community schools and coliege instructors. It provides equal access and treatment for eligible project participants without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, age or disability condition. We will select 12 participants from a diverse group of teachers, emerging teachers and college students with a career goal to teach Hind, cuture, social sciences, environmental sciences and arts at elementary, middle, high and community colleges in the U.S. Most costs of the study tour are covered by the federal grant, however, The GPA grant does not provide funds for passport and visa expenses. Each participant must pay for their costs for wisa, health insurance, wilt, etc. Should the applicant fail to have the required documents prior to travel, the individual may be prohibited from participating in the project.

Health Information
The GPA grant does not cover the hesith and accident insurance of project participants. U.S./ED does not assume, by virtue of this grant, any responsibilty for any personal injury, accident, thess, and loss of personal property or other contingencies that may happen to participants during or as a result of their stay abroad. U.S./ED requires that participants be covered by heath and accident insurance bans. The insurance should include Emergency Medical Evacuation as well as Repatriation of Remains coverage, Information on recommended shots may be obtained on the Center for Disease Control's website http://www.cdc.gov/ (AI GPA participants must be educators, students, pre-service teachers or administrators who fulfil the criteria above and are currently teaching, studying, and/or administering in the eligible fields of humanities, social sciences, foreign languages, and/or area studies. Area studies is defined as a program of comprehensive study of the aspects of a society or societies, including the study of their geography, history, culture, economy, politics, international relations, or languages. If an educator or student is working in a variety of subject areas, she must spend the majority of his/her time working with elgible subjects.)

Leadership
The Project Director, Team Leader and Administrator Ashok Ojha, along with the Project Academic Director Prof. Gabriela Nik Ilieva, Cinical Professor, South Asian Linguistics, Department of Middie Eastern and Istamic Studies, New York University, will lead the study tour to India.

Program Support Comes From
The South Asian Language Programs at New York University (NYU). Yale University Macmillan Center, The South Asia Institute at the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) and Michigan State University, In India: Banaras Hindu University Department of Hindi, Varanasi; Arsh Vidya Gorukum, Rishikesh; Center for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath-Varanasi; University of Lucknow: Swami Vivekananda University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Barrackpore, Kolkata, West Bengal and Acharya Sukumar Sen Mahavidyalaya, Gotan, West Bengal.

To see videos and info from last years’ Fulbright Hays program, click here.

Fulbright-Hays (2023-24) Videos

Renee Walters | Boise State University, Idaho participant,
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA SHORT TERM CURRICULUM | DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 2023 STUDY TOUR INDIA speaks about her experiences during the study tour.

Angelika Foerst | Teacher, Chandler Unified School District, Az
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA SHORT TERM CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 2023 STUDY TOUR INDIA speaks about her experiences during the study tour.

Lazaara Simeonova Ilieva, Aalborg University, Denmark,
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA SHORT TERM CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 2023 STUDY TOUR INDIA speaks about her experiences during the study tour.

Rajni Bhargava | NYU
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA SHORT TERM CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 2023 STUDY TOUR INDIA speaks about her experiences during the study tour.

Sarah A Robinson
PhD Student U C L A, Los Angeles, participant, YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA SHORT TERM CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 2023 STUDY TOUR INDIA speaks about her experiences during the study tour.

Miguel Maldonado | NYU
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA SHORT TERM CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 2023 STUDY TOUR INDIA speaks about her experiences during the study tour.

Bina Panchal | The Humanist Academy, Dallas, TX
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA SHORT TERM CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 2023 STUDY TOUR INDIA speaks about her experiences during the study tour.

Iryna Babik, Boise state university, Idaho
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA SHORT TERM CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 2023 STUDY TOUR INDIA speaks about her experiences during the study tour.

Sania Biswas | University of Colorado, Boulder,
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA SHORT TERM CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 2023 STUDY TOUR INDIA speaks about her experiences during the study tour.

Rajasekhar Vangapaty | SUNY, New York, NY
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA SHORT TERM CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 2023 STUDY TOUR INDIA speaks about her experiences during the study tour.

अकादमिक निदेशक प्रो. गैब्रिएला निक इलेवा (न्यूयार्क वि.वि.) की रिपोर्ट
'युवा हिंदी संस्थान - न्यूयॉर्क विश्वविद्यालय फुल ब्राइट - हेस ग्रुप प्रोजेक्ट एब्रॉड पाठ्यक्रम निर्माण परियोजना 2023 के तहत एक माह का अध्ययन दौरा 26 फरवरी से 28 मार्च 2024 तक संपन्न हुआ। इस दौरान परियोजना की अकादमिक निदेशक गैब्रिएला निक इलेवा तथा परियोजना निदेशक अशोक ओझा के नेतृत्व में 11 प्रतिनिधियों ने भारत का दौरा किया।परियोजना का मुख्य विषय था ' भौतिकवादी संसार में संतोषप्रद जीवन- भारत की सचेतन और कल्याणकारी परंपरा'।
इस वीडियो में प्रोफेसर गैब्रिएला ने पूरे अध्ययन दौरे के दौरान हुई गतिविधियों का सारांश प्रस्तुत किया है।

A comprehensive report by Prof. Gabriela Nik. Ilieva, NYU (Academic Director)
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA SHORT TERM CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 2023 STUDY TOUR program was held from February 26 to March 28, 2024 in India. Led by Project Director Ashok Ojha and Academic Director Prof. Gabriela Nik Ilieva 11 participants took part in this study tour. The theme of the project was: Contentment in a Materialistic World- Mindfulness and Wellness Traditions of India. In this video Prof. Ilieva provides an overview of the program.

DAY TO DAY PROGRAM

Day 2, 3 DAY 2 Study Tour (India) IGI Airport, New Delhi
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA 2023 SHORT-TERM CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT team members arrive in India. A welcome reception was held at the Delhi center of Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, a Govt of India Department of Education initiative for the promotion of Hindi language.

Day 4, 5 Visit to Rishikesh
The Study Tour program, YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA 2023 project, begins at Rishikesh on the bank of the river Ganga, where the participants took part in a number of activities related with yoga and meditation, aimed at creating a foundation for the exploration of India's heritage.

Day 5 Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Rishikesh Swamini Chidekarasananda Saraswati | Part I
Part I of the spiritual discourse by Swamini Chidekarasananda Saraswati at the campus of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Rishikesh.

DAY 5 Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Rishikesh Swamini Chidekarasananda Saraswati | Part II
Part II of discourse by Swamini Chidekarasananda Saraswati at the campus of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Rishikesh.
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DAY- 5 Rishikesh: Protecting a tree | Interview I
We interviewed Pipaleshwar Maharaj who dedicated his life to the protection of a Peepal tree in Rishikesh: Part I.

DAY- 5 Rishikesh: Protecting a tree | Interview II
Part II of the interview of Pipaleshwar Maharaj who dedicated his life to the protection of a Peepal tree in Rishikesh.

Day 8 A Visit to University of Lucknow
During the Study Tour program YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA 2023 team visited the campus of Lucknow University where they learned about 'Happiness Club' at the Psychology Department, toured the campus and met with the Vice Chancellor.

Day 9 Local NGOs, Lucknow
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA 2023 team observed the works of Drishti, and Brahmakumris, two non-government organizations dedicated to the service of people.

Day 9 Cultural Activities Songs, Dances, One Act Play by Students, Lucknow
Students of Lucknow University performed varieties of songs, dances and an one act play depicting social issues, for the benefit of the YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA 2023 team members.
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DAY 10 & 11 A VISIT TO VARANASI
During the Study Tour program YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA 2023 team visited Varanasi where they participated in activities at: Ghats (riverbanks)of Ganga; Home of Bharatendu Harishchandra; Banaras Hindu University Hindi Department, Bharat Kala Bhavan Museum, and the craftswomen at Assi Ghat.

DAY 13 & 14 Premchand's Birthplace & His Story 'Idgah'
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA STUDY TOUR 2023 PROGRAM participants visited Lamahi, birthplace of Premchand and participated in seminars at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi.

DAY 15 | Sarnath: Where Buddha Taught
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA STUDY TOUR 2023 PROGRAM Participants' Visit to Sarnath.

DAY 16 | Sarnath : The Tibetan Tradition of Meditation
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA STUDY TOUR 2023 PROGRAM Participants' Visit to the Tibetan Institute Higher Studies, Sarnath.

DAY 16 | Maharshi Panini Pragya Anusandhan Kendra Varanasi
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA STUDY TOUR 2023 PROGRAM Participants' Visit to Maharshi Panini Pragya Anusandhan Kendra .

DAY 18 to 23 A Visit to Kolkata: Exploring the Cultural Legacy of Rabindranath Tagore
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA STUDY TOUR 2023 PROGRAM participants' first day's tour to the city of Kolkata, where they went to visit the birthplace of Nobel laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore, Belur Math and the hustle and bustle of the city.

DAY 26 | Madhubani Land of Great Artistes
Madhubani Chitra Kala Sansthan, a Bihar government institution to train the younger generation in the art of Mithila tradition of paintings, organized a seminar where the historical narrative of development of Madhubani paintings was presented by scholars.

WORKSHOP

DAY 27 & 28 | Workshop at Padmashri Awardee Dulari Devi's Home
YHS-NYU FULBRIGHT-HAYS GPA STUDY TOUR 2023 PROGRAM participants visited the home of Dulari Devi, a Padmashri awardee in Madhubani. Dulari conducted a workshop on the art of Madhubani Painting for the visiting members of the group.

Dargah Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia, New Delhi
ome of our group members visited the Dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia in Delhi and learned about Islamic culture of Mindfulness.

STUDY TOUR - Phase 2

The theme of the project: "Living with Contentment in a Material Word: Mindfulness and Wellness Traditions of India"

Rani Jha Madhubani Painting Artist | Part 1

Rani Jha Madhubani Painting Artist | Part 2

Rani Jha Madhubani Painting Artist | Part 3

Rani Jha Madhubani Painting Artist | Part 4

Visit to Dargah Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia in New Delhi | Part 1

Visit to Dargah Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia in New Delhi | Part 2

Visit to Dargah Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia in New Delhi | Part 3

Niladri Paul Contemporary Fine Artist | Part 1

Niladri Paul Contemporary Fine Artist | Part 2

Lecture by Prof. Soumik Nandy Majumdar, Kala Bhavan, Vishwa Bharati University, Shantiniketan | Part 1

Lecture by Prof. Soumik Nandy Majumdar, Kala Bhavan, Vishwa Bharati University, Shantiniketan | Part 2

Visit to Gurudwara Rakabganj Sahib, New Delhi | Part 1

Visit to Gurudwara Rakabganj Sahib, New Delhi | Part 2