Monthly Archives: November 2016

FROM THE TEACHER’S PODIUM Reclaiming the Culture of Reading The joy of reading is an integral component of learning, understanding and exploring the world. Be it...

From Vedanta to Awara ‘India’s history is a curiously unpeopled place’. Sunil Khilnani—the author of The Idea of India— opens his new book Incarnations with...

Social Sciences in India and the Glimpses of Critical Thought Modernity, development, morality—these are important issues that continue to strike our imagination. And when a...

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.

ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CLASSICS Invoking Soul Force: Revisiting Hind Swaraj Even though there are many critiques of the project of Enlightenment and Western modernity, Mohandas Karamchand...

The Idea of Deschooling in Contemporary Times: Rediscovering the Path of Hope Ivan Illich was a remarkably great thinker inspiring us to rethink technology and...

I have always felt that above everything else I am a traveller at heart. On one of my recent visits to the mystic Himalayas,...

MATTER OF CONCERN The importance of rational thinking and the pedagogue’s responsibility Developing a clear thought process among students is of prime importance, it is with...

FROM THE FIELD Activity-Based Learning for Communicative Teaching: Study of a Government School in South Delhi Activity-based learning enlivens the classroom and generates an interest among...

Beyond Narrow Nationalism: Rethinking Education The world is a shared community, and nations are recent constructs. Can education play a role in liberating us from...