Tag: NCERT

Professor Yashpal was a man whose contributions to the field of education are noteworthy. The great playwright Shakepeare’s famous lines ‘His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!’ best describe him. Here is a piece that reminds us once again of the man and his concerns for a better world.

India faces an annual crisis in school admissions with the growing demand for seats in ‘good’ schools. The statistics however reveal that there are enough schools across the country to accommodate each child but many remain vacant because of poor infrastructure or reputation. What then is ‘good ‘education, and is it necessarily affluent/elitist in nature? What do we choose when we select a school ? Is it the education or is it a lifestyle?

Our education system is in much need of reformation and urgent transformative changes. While there are several areas where changes must be made, the...

Interrogating Gender Stereotypes: A Pedagogue’s Creative Endeavour Social and cultural stereotypes destroy the process of understabding the nuances and complexity of human life. And...