India’s youth-led Cockroach Janta Party transformed a demeaning label into a vivid symbol of resilience and collective voice. Through satire, social media, and public action, the movement brought unemployment, exam integrity, education justice, and institutional accountability into public view.
This nonpartisan roundtable session asks what this movement can teach the global field of Values-based Education about how values are taught, learned, contested, lived, evaluated, and translated into policy and systems change.
THE ROUNDTABLE FORMAT
Each session brings together a Cockroach movement leader, an educator, a scholar, and a policy-maker – with at least 30 minutes reserved for audience questions and answers.
WHAT YOU’LL TAKE AWAY
- VALUES IN ACTION. Explore dignity, fairness, courage, solidarity, voice, resilience, and accountability as lived civic practices.
- GLOBAL LEARNING. Use comparative lenses that respect India’s context while testing implications and applications across cultures and education systems.
- FROM INSIGHT TO CHANGE. Identify applications for teaching, research, evaluation, institutional leadership, youth participation, and public policy.
- HELP SHAPE WHAT COMES NEXT. Contribute questions and ideas to GAVE’s Model-Method Project, Journal Special Issue, GAVE conference, World Values Day deliberations, and the wider global dialogue.
This is one of two 90-minute sessions with different speakers addressing the same question organised by the Global Alliance for Values-based Education (GAVE). The sessions are on 14th October at 08.00 and 17.00 BST.
OCTOBER 2026 TO NOVEMBER 2027
These roundtables launch a year-long conversation connecting GAVE’s Model-Method Project, a special issue of Education Sciences on Values-based Education, and a Values-based Conference at Parul University in November 2027 (see https://gave.global/ for more information).