Monthly Archives: April 2016
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EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
The New Leam announces an opening/vacancy for the post of Editorial Assistant. Candidates with a social sciences/ humanities/journalism background are preferred.
Location : Munirka, South...
Where Does the Bharat Mata Exist?
Where Does the Bharat Mata Exist?
Bharat Mata is a beautiful symbol. But then, like many other rituals we tend to miss its deeper...
Autonomous and Natural Learning Model – By Pramod Maithil
PEDAGOGIC INNOVATION :
Tinkering Lab is an innovative experiment that trusts the creativity of the child and believes in experiential learning. Here is an account that reveals...
The Children of Gita Press – By Ritu Sinha
In a diverse country like ours there are more than one ideals for childhood. Here a researcher explores the ideas of childhood promoted by...
PARADIGM SHIFT : Learning Disabilities in the Classroom; The Importance of Social Justice By...
With heightened pedagogic sensibilities an educator has come forward with penetrating insights: the mode of engagement a teacher ought to evolve, while negotiating with...
Unloading the Heavy Baggage of the Ego, Classroom as a Site for Self-discovery –...
When learning spaces lose their graded hierarchies and turn into communicative spaces, true learning becomes possible. Here an educator explores this possibility and offers...
DEBATE : The castes of mind
The castes of mind
Can we fight the ugly practice of caste discrimination by merely legal measures? Or do we need to take some sort...
Discipline in Our Classrooms: The Subtle Bond Between Silence, Independence and Freedom- By ...
Discipline is essential. But does too much of discipline produce docility and passivity? A teacher explores Foucault’s ideas and tries to narrate the possibility...
In search of Gandhian Alternatives to Development in Our Times –...
We live at a time that is characterized by growing discontent with the contemporary model of ruthless development and a search for alternatives that...
CONVERSATION WITH ANANYA DASGUPTA : From Literature to Critical Pedagogy
From Literature to Critical Pedagogy
Ananya Dasgupta teaches literatures of the British renaissance and writing in the English Department at Shiv Nadar University. She is...