Finding Ways to Child Friendly Assessment
The present education system lays central importance on examinations depriving learners the opportunity to unfold their potential in innovative styles. Can we rethink assessment to suit the demands of the learner?
Inclusive Mathematics Education – A reality or a distant dream?
For many students Mathematics is a subject to be feared but will a constructive and sensitive approach to the discipline help make the discipline suitable to the needs of various students?
Visual Literacy is Fundamental to Teacher Education Curriculum
Educating the educator makes the crucial component of education and when one effectively exposes oneself to the domain of visual literacy; it becomes a source of empowerment in making sense of the young learner’s world.
Manoj Kumar
Vacation Days and Guardian’s Worry
Holidays make guardians worried for their children and the significance of making proper utilisation of time is their motive. Will occupying them in hobby workshops solve the crisis?
The Sickness of Plagiarism: Seeing Beyond Select JNU Professors
Lately an online news website published an exhaustive report on plagiarism – particularly, the way some newly appointed JNU teachers have be found to be plagiarising their major works.
Budget for CCTV Camera in Delhi Government Schools: Compromising Freedom of...
The Budget gives 175 crore Rupees for the installation of CCTV Cameras in government schools stating the reason of precaution. The denial of classroom freedom is a concern for the teaching community.
A Profession like Teaching Requires A life-Time Commitment to Learning
Teachers who wish to sustain and encourage an epistemological approach in the classroom are often required to compromise on their educational philosophy, when student...
Kristen Kold and Folk Schools of Denmark
As teachers and educators we must be committed to a lifelong process of learning. In this process of self-discovery and exploration the works of the Danish educationist philosopher Kristen Kold open before us a whole new horizon of path breaking insights.
Pedagogic Challenges Towards Cultivating Eco-sensibility Among Students
As young learners grow up they realise that many of our urban practices are not is sync with our eco-sensitive pretensions and thus there seems to be a paradox in our times. What should be the role of teachers and pedagogues in cultivating a true sensitivity and concern for nature among their students?
No Shoes and Socks: The Bihar School Examination Board Looks at...
BOARD EXAMINATION
Bihar Board Examinations are being conducted and from this year students are not allowed to wear shoes and socks inside the hall to decrease the possibility of cheating. Examinations generate anxiety and pressure and thus cheating cannot be contextualised in a void.