Tag: learning
Critical Beings or Technocrats: Positivism in Social Science Classrooms
As classrooms becoming distant from realty, students will emerge as technocrats but would fail to embrace a multiplicity socio-cultural perspective.
Decadence of Studentship and the Need to Rethink Our Classrooms
With the decadence of an informed and active studentship, the university space is fast losing its liberating character.
The Much Needed Reform in Education
Being a central force, education needs to renew itself to meet the challenges of a new social order.
‘Toxic Parenting’ Snatches Away Childhoods: John Marsden Enlightens Us
Over indulgent parenting is toxic rather than enabling, educationist John Marsden’s new book ‘The Art of Growing Up’ is truly a mani-festo for the contemporary times.
The Process of Teaching and Learning: The mistakes one makes!
BOOK REVIEW
Teaching Tales Learning Trails takes you on a journey of self-discovery through the hustle-bustle in the classroom to the dilemmas in the teacher’s mind. The stories in the book are sure to encourage a thought provoking debate on the altering contours of education and the practice of teaching-learning in our classrooms.
Finding True Education beyond Literacy
Education is more than the acquisition of knowledge and a set of skills, education should enable an individual to live a meaningful life and contribute to the nurturance of the greater good of society as a holistic enterprise.
Upasana Kapur
Rethinking the Culture of Learning in our Schools and Communities
EXPLORATION
The aim and objective of education is to inculcate finer sensibilities among learners and enable them to become sensitive, responsible and humane, the present education system often lays great emphasis on examination and competition and ignores the deeper essence of education creating a need to revisit learning in schools and communities.
A Search for a Deeper Sense of Connectedness
VIEWPOINT
Modern knowledge systems often emphasise the distant, the rational, the tangible, the manifest and do not give us the opportunity to dissolve binaries and form a connectedness with all living beings. It is this quest that the author wishes to illuminate upon.
Monica Gupta
Rishikesh, Unplanned Discoveries and a Torn Tour Guide
EXPLORATION \ Travelling can be a fruitful process when it becomes an existentially illuminating act. Over planning can take away its beauty.
Ambika Mahajan
The Path to Multilingualism Makes Us Enriched
EDUCATION
In a multilingual nation like India, it is paradoxical that parents often fear that teaching their children the mother tongue will restrict them from...
