Project-based Learning
Last November, Oak Grove School welcomed to its beautiful campus both current and prospective families for an All School Showcase and Open House.
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Singular and Plural: Understanding the Individual and the Group
I am going to begin with a simple grammar lesson in English, which is approximately at the level of class 2, although we might come upon it at earlier or later stages of our education.
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An Invitation to Look Inward
Krishnamurti felt quite strongly that one of the major functions of education is to nurture the capacity to look inward.
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Editorial
Here we are with the sixteenth issue of the Journal. Run your eye over the titles on the contents page and you will get an impression that themes based on children, teaching and learning—core concerns in any journal of education—are surrounded by themes such as nature, space, spirit, touch, retreat and looking inward. How are these connected with education? That there is a vital link between all these themes and the educational enterprise is what I wish to show.
Our Inner Landscape
Over the centuries, the theories we have devised have gradually changed our image of ourselves, and in so doing they have subtly altered the contents of consciousness.
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Teachers’ Fears: Some Scenarios
Teachers are human beings too. And being human, they share in the fears that human beings live with.
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Being and Becoming: Some Thoughts on Adolescence and Fear
Adolescence is marked in every culture by what anthropologists have called ‘rites of passage’ involving the social recognition of entry into puberty, usually through a formal ritual or ceremony.
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Children’s Fears
Suppose you were to ask a young child, 13 years old, to write down her answer to the question: what are you afraid of?
Fear: An Introduction to the Section
When the editors’ team met in July 2010 to discuss the content of the new edition the discussion turned to the number of suicides by young people reported daily in newspapers.
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Anxiety, Openness and Freedom
Do animals feel fear? On the face of it, this seems to be an absurd question, for of course, animals do feel fear.
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The Art of Parenting
The razzle-dazzle of technology and media has captured the hearts and minds of teenagers, far outpacing parents’ and teachers’ ability to hold the attention of youth.
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Partial and Total Insight: Constructivism and Krishnamurti’s Pedagogy
‘What I am trying to say is that insight is never partial; I am talking of total, not partial, insight … An artist can have a partial insight.
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Oak Grove School: The Growth of a Learning Centre
Excerpts from a talk given at the International Symposium on ‘Being Alive to Responsible Citizenship: J.
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Glimpses of the Children’s Programme at the Study Centre, Bangalore
The Study Centre at Bangalore has been conducting programs for the school children of The Valley School since 1993.
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Astronomy in School
Outdoor activities form an integral part of school education.
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Learning to be a Teacher of History: Excerpts from the Journal of a Beginner
I joined Rajghat Besant School, Varanasi, in July 2009 as a resource person to teach Class XII students.
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A Love of Theatre: Interview with Gerard Bayle
The following is an interview with Gerard Bayle, a professional theatre actor who has been working with students in the UK and India for many years.
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Environmental Education in Our Schools
As it is the United Nations’ Year of Biodiversity, it seems an appropriate time to stand back and take stock of the way we teach environmental education in Krishnamurti Schools.
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Can One Learn the Art of Living from Nature?
‘Is man a part of nature, or apart from nature?’ It seems paradoxical to ask such a question.
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Editorial
True to its eclectic character, this fifteenth issue of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools has a collection of articles on diverse subjects and topics.
Goodness cannot flower in the field of fear
In all our schools the educator and those responsible for the students, whether in the classroom, on the playing field or in their rooms, have the responsibility to see that fear in any form does not arise.
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What Did You Ask at School Today?
This is a journal on education that is brought out annually. It is an anthology of writings by educators, teachers and thinkers exploring a new vision of education in its many dimensions—philosophy, psychology, classroom experience, curriculum, nature and environment, and contemporary issues. It lays special emphasis on J Krishnamurti’s principles of education.
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Teaching Academy: A Participant’s Perspective
To educate another, you must re-educate yourself, a strenuous task.This statement is, perhaps, widely understood by most teachers who have been in the classroom for more than a few years.
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Teaching Academy, Ojai 2009
Krishnamurti suggested that, ‘Education can be transformed only by educating the educator, and not merely creating a new pattern, a new system of action.’ Around this challenge, a group of educators participated in a two-week intensive Teaching Academy in the summer of 2009, at Ojai, California.
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Timeless Questions: A Twelfth Grade Social Studies Class
As a teacher I am always looking for a good thesis sentence, for that perfect one-sentence statement that is a concise summary of an article, a film, an argument, a teaching.
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The Living Past
The social sciences are ideally suited to a learning that draws on immediate and surrounding worlds.
What Must Social Studies Teach? An Exploration for Class Six
When I joined Rishi Valley School a little over an year ago, I was introduced to the teachers’ resource cupboard, which had files overflowing with reading and reference material for the Social Studies curriculum for Class 6.
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The Art of Making Machines: A Science Classroom
Science is basically an exploration of that which is not known, or put more flamboyantly, the unknown, in the material world.
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A Mathematical Enquiry
It was an unusually pleasant Wednesday afternoon in July.
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Exploring a New Dimension to Learning
This article describes a new exploration at Oak Grove School, Ojai – Editors’Academic excellence is absolutely necessary, but a school includes much more than that…’ J KrishnamurtiOne of the great challenges of providing a Krishnamurti education within the context of an independent tuition-based school (especially here in America), is balancing accountability for academic excellence with all that is entailed in what he considered to be ‘much more than that’.
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Re-examining Words in Education
In the brief articles that follow, we re-examine and unravel the meanings of words commonly used in the field of education.DisciplineWe admire well regulated, ordered lives.
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