Media, Society and Education: Perspectives and Issues for Our Times
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Media and Education
There is an urgent concern among educators about the pervasive role that the media plays in all our lives today.
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Three Months at Rajghat
It was almost a year ago that my husband Julian and I decided that it was time for us to take a career break, to reflect on where we were in our lives, to leave the treadmill of work and commuting in South England, and to gain some experience of another culture.
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A Science Curriculum in the Making
When five science teachers get together to discuss what science teaching (or learning) should be across the school, it makes for a rambling, shapeless and extended discussion over many months.
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On Learning Difficulties
What are ‘Learning Difficulties’? Today, a large number of schools and institutions across India are sensitive to the fact that 15 percent of all school-going children have some degree of learning difficulties.
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In Quest of Total Excellence
Surely a school is a place where one learns about the totality, the wholeness of life.
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Competition and its Educational Consequences: Is There an Alternative?
Competition as a driving principle of life seems to have become all-pervasive, and it appears to extend into every nook and cranny of social activity: sports, music, dance (and all the performing arts), business, research, academia in general.
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Erik Erikson’s Theory of Development: A Teacher’s Observations
Erik Erikson was a psychologist who did most of his work in the post-Freudian era, in the 1930s to the 1950s.
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This Matter of Intellectual Understanding
In recent conversations with friends where we were trying to understand each other as well as to enquire into deep questions of life, a frequent impediment would be the different meanings or connotations we ascribe to the words we use.
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On Discovery: A response
One of Amir Huda’s central points is that, throughout our education, we have become used to learning from teachers in a step by step, accumulative process, instead of discovering things on our own.
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Reinventing the Wheel?
I feel that learning in general, including in schools, is the incremental acquisition of knowledge or information in time, which by its very nature may thwart the process of discovery, by establishing in the mind a framework or paradigm of how to deal with the unknown.
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The Frog Prince: Embracing the Negative in Our Selves
I start with Krishnamurti’s statement: …reality cannot come into being…without self-knowledge, self-knowledge which is discovered from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship, so that all illusion is stripped away, so that the ego does not build fantasies, escapes.
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What is a True Community?
It’s a winter afternoon, and the sun shines red through the trees as I walk through the woods.
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Speaking of God
In every human being there is the quest for the unknown, and in every consciousness, whether young or old, whether traditional or modern, there is a notion of God.
An Approach to Teaching Religion
In the 1950s and ’60s, the secular, objective, ‘scientific’ study of religion broke away from the traditional discipline of religion (i.e., apologetics for a particular dominant religion).
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Where Does Responsibility Lie?
We live our lives in compartments. The big one for this, the smaller one for that, and the mid-sized one for something else.
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Global Violence and Individual Responsibility
The spectacular events of terrorism that took place in the United States a few months ago have focussed the attention of the whole world on the issue of global violence.
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Editorial
This journal is now six years and six issues old. Started as an in-house publication of the Krishnamurti schools, it has begun to reach out to a wider readership: to parents, teachers, educational administrators and other individuals or institutions interested in the educational issues of our times.
What is meditation?
How can the mind know if it has found what it calls the ultimate, the immeasurable, the nameless, the most sublime?
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Review of “Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls”, Mary Pipher (Ph D)
It is rarely that one comes across a book about young girls that is not merely a saga of their times, of the pain and struggles in their lives, but also takes a proactive approach to actually doing what the title suggests – Reviving Ophelia.
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Review of “A Series on Children’s Development”, Dr. Joseph Chilton Pearce
This is a set of six videos on child development, each lasting from one to one and a half hours, anchored by Dr.
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For all you Maths Teachers out There!: On the Mathematics Teachers’ Conference at Rishi Valley
I am sure all you mathematics teachers out there have had the following experience.
Stepping into Kindergarten
I undertook training in Kindergarten education at the Children’s Garden School in Chennai in 1978.
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Learning through Birds
There was a slight movement on the branch above us, well over fifty feet high.
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Working with the People of Kaigal Valley: Beginnings of a Conservation Project
The Kaigal Valley landThe Krishnamurti Foundation India has had in its care about 200 acres of beautiful forest land at Kaigal Valley near the town of Palamner since 1984.
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“A Meandering, Dancing, River of Learning”: Excerpts from a Teacher’s Diary
Going back through my diary and taking out excerpts for the Journal has been a rewarding experience for me.
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Teaching and Learning Hindi as a ‘Second’ Language: Exploring a new Terrain
A few years ago I made a transition from teaching French as a foreign language to adults to making materials for teaching Hindi as a second language to young school goers in South India.
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The Human Perspective in Teaching Geography
Images of GeographyGeography – the very name conjures up images of misty mountains, bubbling brooks, rapidly flowing rills, deep gorges, endless undulating plains, and majestic rivers, so slow-flowing that they almost seem indolent, yet with a hidden power that man has sought to harness for aeons.
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The Unbearable Ennui of being Sherlock Holmes: A Meditation in Three Movements
Sherlock Holmes, as is well known, was a person who was subject to violent fluctuations of mood.
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