A Life Well-lived: Education and Values
Everyone agrees that values should be part of a good education.
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Writing Textbooks for Children
Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop which makes personal care cosmetics, was once asked admiringly what special materials her products were made from.
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Poorna: An Alternative, Inclusive School
Several years ago my son, then in Class Seven, came home disturbed about an incident in school.
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Let’s Play
As a sports teacher the first thing that struck me, or should I say shocked me, was that sports was not a time that everyone looked forward to.
Educating Romeo and His Teacher
I am a 17-year-old adolescent male. I am sure this very statement gives you the heebie-jeebies! My parents and teachers are highly educated and have no qualms in sharing all the latest research on adolescents, plus their own home-grown wisdom about teenagers, with me.
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Learning in Kinship
Most children experience a sharp dichotomy between home and school.
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Science and Religion
Discussions of deep philosophical issues may seem out of place in a journal dedicated to K-12 education, but actually philosophical viewpoints (and their assumptions) inform all daily perspectives and behaviors.
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Educating for the Art of Living
What is education about? In what general context does it find its meaning, its raison d’être?
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Krishnamurti and Deep Ecology
Deep Ecology, a current philosophical movement initiated by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess in 1972, is shaping the environmental debate by asking fundamental questions about who we are and what human progress means rather than searching merely for technological fixes.
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Editorial
This is the fourteenth issue of the Journal and what started as an in-house exchange between the various Krishnamurti schools has, over the years, slowly and quietly found a wider audience.
Learning about Oneself
Questioner: Could you describe how you are aware that you are inattentive?
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Exploring Krishnamurti’s Insights
BeautyThe perception of beauty is an essential aspect of the teachings of J.
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Envy and the High Demands of Love
Envy is a curious emotion with a long and tragic history in human affairs.
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Scribbles on a Blackboard: Travels to a Turkish Mathematics Village
An e-mail query in support of a Turkish Mathematics Village more than a year ago lead to a most illuminating, intellectually broadening and exciting experience at the annual Turkish Mathematics Summer School in the idyllic and sleepy but enchanting village of Sirince.
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The School of Life
Prefatory NoteSince the publication in July 2 2006 of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools ‘dedicated to the teacher’, there has been an increasing, if varied, response to the necessary task of educating the educator.
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The Philosophical Underpinnings of Holistic Education
Holistic education is a philosophy of education based on the premise that each person finds identity, meaning, and purpose in life through connections to the community, to the natural world, and to spiritual values such as compassion and peace.(Miller, R.
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Seeking out a New Role for Dance
Most often when I lead a dance class for the first time, the response I get from the boys is, ‘Yuuuuukkkkk dance! It’s for girls!’; and from the girls it is, ‘But when are we going to dance?’ By the end of the session all the children would have engaged with ideas, and used their bodies to express these in space.
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Music in the Classroom
Some years ago, I attended a workshop conducted in Bangalore by teachers from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm.
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On Being an Effective Teacher
We have all had some great teachers. Or at least, if we have not been fortunate enough, we have heard of great teachers.
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Democracy in Education: An Exploration of Structure
Poor effectiveness and quality plague our school system.
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What are Children Learning from Us?
There are indeed many things that we consciously teach children, both at home and at school.
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Self-directed Learning in Mathematics: Applying Krishnamurti in everyday classroom practice
The purpose, the aim and drive of these schools is to equip the child with the most excellent technological proficiency so that the student may function with clarity and efficiency in the modern world.
Preparing the Ground for Meaningful Writing
As an English teacher I have found great joy in the exploration of meaningful writing with junior and middle school children.
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Reading Children: A Perspective from Poetry
The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind Emily DickinsonEarly in my Literature course with students newly come into Class 11, I have given them these lines of poetry to consider: The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
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Walks: To Nurture the Natural
Exulting in an unexpected shower in the summer, running off to float paper boats in puddles after the rains, looking for delicious berries at a particular time of the year, watching little insects, picking wild flowers to make bouquets, finding shining smooth pebbles or shells, feeling the soft sand and the rushing water on the beach, climbing a giant tree, running up and down a hillside—the list can go on.
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Educating the Educator: Self-Inquiry for Parents and Teachers
To give knowledge which does not become an end in itself and to educate the mind to have a long vision, a wide comprehension of life, is not possible if education is based on authority.
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Reaching out to Government Schools in Tamil Nadu
The School, KFI, Chennai has created a new methodology that seeks to build a link between knowledge and empowerment, to equip each student with the ability to think, to apply and to discover.
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On Ambition: A Talk to Students
We have heard people say, that without ambition, we cannot do anything.
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Action Research: The Power of Action through Inquiry
Teachers often see research as involving distance and separation from their work.
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A Structural Answer to a Cultural Question: Mixed Age Group in the Middle School
This article is an account of a pilot project on learning in a mixed age group environment in the middle school classes 5, 6 and 7, initiated at The School, KFI, in Chennai in the year 2006-2007.
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