Tag: Education

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...

PARADIGM SHIFT Educating for a More Sustainable Tomorrow The ecological crisis is at its peak and calls us to take up the shared responsibility for transformation....

Nationalism is a double-edged phenomenon. It is important for a creative pedagogue to distinguish its positive features from its discontents. Here is a piece that reflects on the paradoxical nature of nationalism, and pleads for a pedagogy of love and resistance.

As Professor Amman Madan converses with us and recalls the intellectual trajectory he has passed through we realize the significance of the role he plays as a pedagogue. His reflections on critical pedagogy and its epistemological roots, his deep awareness of the emergent challenge because of the changing cultural landscape in the neo-liberal world, his observations on the ethos of reading and learning in a digital world, and above all, his refusal to accept fatalism give us hope in the art of possibilities.

PERSPECTIVE Integrative Education for Sustainability Orienting education towards sustainability provides a transformative experience involving a fundamental change in the way we look at the world. The...

Learning without Boundaries: Arts in the classroom Art as a medium of instruction liberates the mind and enables the child to discover the ocean...