Tag: Education
Seeing Through Super 30: Sanctifying the IIT Dream
Does Super 30 rethink education in a radical fashion? Or does it just sanctify the IIT dream?
Flip it around!
Not everything is dead. It is possible for a teacher to arouse the child’s imagination; it is possible to generate poetry in a science class. In this article—written with immense clarity and conviction, a Chemistry teacher takes us to the realm of pedagogic revolution.
A Guide to Reading-Out to Your Child
The introduction of a child to the world of books is one of the best gifts that parenting can offer.
Loneliness: The Price We Pay For Our Progress
The Minister of Loneliness in the United Kingdom... Does it indicate the mood of the times we live in?
The Ghost Colony
A society that values ‘documents’ more than human beings can lead to a truly alienating experience.
The Ignorant School Master: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation by Jaques Ranciere
Ranciere’s classic work ‘The Ignorant School Master’, just like several such works is not to be seen as a policy document which can immediately be applied in totality.
Is the 100-Day Education Agenda Under NDA II-a Push Towards Privatisation?
The 100 days educational plan drafted by HRD and approved by PM will be implemented very soon.
True Education and not Literacy is the Need of the Times
The colonial administration focused on an education system meant to be produce non-reflexive, law-abiding citizens, but even today why does the education system fail to cultivate rational thinking and creative imagination?
Creative Pedagogy and Innovative Learning in Adverse Situations
Throughout India teachers use the ‘Question & Answer system’ of imparting knowledge, since imparting knowledge is considered synonymous with teaching.
Democracy – education, media and polity
What kind of polity can prevail in such a soulless society?
