Tag: Education

What has failed: Children or the System? Each year the results of the Board Examinations reveal the poor condition of the Indian education system which...

On Stories, Childhood and Ecological Consciousness In this article the author rediscovers two beautiful stories and reflects on childhood and ecological consciousness in the context...

Challenging the Notion of Confined Classrooms: Thinking of Education beyond Textbooks The schooled mind may tend to lose its spontaneity and sense of wonder making...

History is about human narratives—and at tines narratives of people with extraordinary courage and fearlessness. However, because of political stereotypes, we often do injustice to these characters. Is it possible to engage with these narratives differently? An educator speaks of this possibility by invoking Bhagat Singh and Swami Vivekananda.

The Importance of Performing Arts in Creative Pedagogy Creativity is the stimulant in any classroom and without the magic that it brings learning can never...

LIVING DEMOCRACY Democracy Can be Practiced all the Time A life based on collective consensus is possible if we internalize the ethos of democracy in all...

Not everyone adores modernity—its urbanization, its anonymity, its implicit denaturalization. Quite often modern cities symbolize these discontents of modernity—reckless speed and heartless calculative rationality. ...

The School as a Site of Inquiry: Locating Foucault within the Classroom Theory emerges from lived experience; it is futile to divorce theory and practice....

Teaching Geography the Creative Way: A Pedagogue’s Classroom Diary Geography is often taught as a dry discipline which requires the mechanical memorization of facts and...

Education for Life, Education for Restoring the Intimacy with Land Why is it that in the name of ‘education’ we have lost the living contact...