Tag: Education
Not Fragmented Individuals: Towards the Undivided Whole
The goal of education is to help the individual integrate the inner and the outer, the self and the world; but today we experience a fragmentation that has given birth to conflict both in the world as well as within. A pedagogue engages with the root cause of this problem and pleads for a new journey.
Exposing the Fragile Glasshouse Called ‘University’ Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic
The future is uncertain, and the present is fraught with difficulties. And that's what this pandemic has done - shown us the fragility of our glasshouses such as the ‘university’.
We the Teachers at the Time of Pandemic
At this moment when the taken-for-granted world has crumbled, is the role of the teacher confined only to ‘online teaching’?
Book Review | The Reflective Learner: Seeing ‘Missed Takes’ in Mistakes
An engaging compilation of distinct pedagogic efforts towards revisiting ‘mistakes’ and redefining them as stepping stones for growth and betterment.
Social Emotional Learning as the Key to Quality Education in our Schools
The primary objective of education is to cultivate critical thought and sensitivity among students. Can we achieve this?
A Glass Prison for Teachers: The Hardships and Difficulties that Paint an Indian Teacher’s...
The following article looks at the difficulties and the hardships that the teachers of Sheo, Rajasthan face on a day to day basis. This is reflexive of the greater issues that Indian teachers in remote areas have to go through.
Learning to Fall
Philip Simmons’s book is a gift to all his readers who will draw many messages of life and death from his wonderful work. This inspirational book draws on everyday dilemmas and suggest alternative ways to look at lives problems in adversity.
Commodification of Education and Politics of Knowledge Production
Professor Amman Madan is a leading educationist in the country. His recent book on education and modernity is filled with nuanced arguments and sociological sensibilities. With its clarity and lucidity, it engagse the readers. Here is an important excerpt from the text; it raises critical questions relating to the growing commodification of education in our times.
Remembering Maulana Abul Kalam Azad on his Death Anniversary
Maulana Azad was a well known scholar who served as India’s first education minister.
Meet Boro Baski: The Educator Who Set Up a School for Indigenous Children in...
Baski is an inspiration for many who aim to put their knowledge into practice by working for the upliftment of their communities. He truly stands as an inspiration before us all.
