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Last Updated:January 22, 2025, 09:47 IST
At the launch event of her new book series Creative Connects, Swaroop Rawal talks about pursing a PhD in Education post marriage.
Swaroop Rawal recently published Creative Connects that integrates art into school and college curriculum.
Veteran actor, educationist and former Miss India Swaroop Rawal took a hiatus from acting after tying the knot with Paresh Rawal in 1987. Soon, she became busy with family life and a few years later, gave birth to her sons, Aditya Rawal and Aniruddh Rawal. Another few years later, she decided to turn over a new leaf in her life and that’s when she went to the University of Worcester to pursue a PhD in Education. In an exclusive chat with News18 Showsha, Swaroop says that she’s happy to have set a precedent for married women that education can be pursued even after embracing motherhood.
“I did it when I was 39. Isn’t it nice?” she tells us. In 2010, she donned the hat of an author for the first time when she penned a book titled ‘Learning Disabilities In A Nutshell: Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, Dyspraxia’, which had a foreword by Aamir Khan. And recently, she published a new series of new books titled ‘Creative Connects’. Through these books, she has integrated art and drama into the subjects taught to students. Talking about it, Swaroop says, “I really didn’t have to work so hard to come up with it.”
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According to her, it’s her fervent love for creativity that has resulted in these books and she looks at it as an interesting blend of her passion and ambition. “I’ve always been a theatre person and very interested in music and painting as I studied commercial art. And I’ve always integrated all of that into my teaching. Luckily, these things are there in the National Curriculum Framework For School Education 2023. It’s a very, very important part of it and it states that art integration is something that should be done for all subjects,” she states.
The Uri: The Surgical Strike and Ki & Ka actor further adds, “I think it should be an integral part of the school curriculum all the way up to college. With Chetna Publishers, we did some beautiful books for grade one till grade eight for CBSE and state boards. We’re doing the pre-school books too. They’re all art-integrated. I wrote other books too like ‘Life Skills Through Drama’ and ‘Play Practice Pursue’ on the ten-day bagless period of school. But Creative Connects is special because these are art books. Those books were for teachers, but this one is for the students.”
And much like her, her husband too is multi-faceted. In 2014, he won as BJP’s MP from Ahmedabad East constituency. However, ‘politics doesn’t interest’ Swaroop as she would much rather focus on her trajectory as an educator. “I don’t think I want to get into it. Everybody keeps telling me that I should get into the education sector. I’m not against politics but it’s just not me. If someone tells me to open a school, I won’t do it. I just want to be a teacher. I don’t want to spend time in administration because my biggest strength and interest lies in creative lessons,” she remarks.
SOURCE : NEWS 18
