Goodness in a Changing World
Our discussions in the recent past have often veered towards some troubling trends that we notice in the lives of the urban middle and upper-class students in our schools.
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Editorial
…seeing all these outward things without condemnation, without choice, you can ride on the tide of inner awareness.
On Behaviour
One of the most difficult things in life is to find a way of behaviour that is not dictated by circumstances.
Reality Isn’t What It Used to Be
As Merlin was to young King Arthur, so every adult must become to every child.
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Physical Education: An Integrated Approach
We see around us three kinds of attitudes related to the body.
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A Philosophical Look at Modern Culture
Philosophy, perhaps more than any other academic discipline, is thought to deal with intellectual things, or ‘ideas’.
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Facilitating Career Discovery
The meaning and purpose of work Work is as old as the history of mankind.
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Crossing the Great Divide
Career Choice, a critical juncture The choice of a career is and will always be one of two most critical decisions in the first few years of one’s adulthood — rivalled only by the choice of a mate.
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It is the Educator who Needs Educating
We are apt to feel, in the cut and press of daily life and in the fulfilment of our responsibilities to the school and to its students, that our lives are caught up in minutiae: ongoing lesson preparation, correction of papers, assessment, examinations, meetings and administrative decisions.
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Health Education
What does health mean to young people? They are active and energetic and rarely lack in physical vitality.
Adolescent Angst
As a teacher, house parent and a parent, not necessarily in that order, I have often wondered at the seemingly irreconcilable differences between an energetic, impulsive, complaining, ‘immature’, angst ridden adolescent and the staid, ‘mature’, orderly adult.
Dimensions of Awareness
A distinctive feature of holistic education is nurturing the spirit.
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A Gently Socratic Enquiry
A paramount objective of education is to help children develop their ability to think for themselves and to learn to use this ability in responsible ways.
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Trans-personal Growth
Pre-conventional, Conventional and Trans-personal Stages of Development Recent psychological studies in human development suggest an interesting three-stage model of development: pre-conventional, conventional and trans-personal (or post-conventional).
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Creating Books Without a Formula
Children in India traditionally grew up listening to stories.
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Children and Reading
Why do we want our children to read? I refer to the wide range of books in fiction and non-fiction, which are perused by children and young adults from ages six to eighteen.
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Krishnamurti’s Letters to His Schools: Introducing a New Edition
It is a great privilege to be involved in editing Krishnamurti’s works.
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School Administration: For Humanness and Vitality
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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Igniting Minds: With Science on Wheels
Like the wandering minstrel of yore, Agastya International Foundation’s Mobile Laboratory (ML) trundles in and out of schools in villages of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
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Confessions of a Science Teacher
I would like to share my concern for the teaching and future of my subject, as also to suggest the basis of the way that I would proceed, should I get the opportunity to teach again.
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Building a Cathedral: An Approach to Teaching Poetry
There is a parable of a passer by who encountered three workmen cutting stones on a vast building site.
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A Feeling for Beauty: Dance in Education
Long before a child sees that the world is made up of books and classrooms he is aware that he can do the most amazing things with his hands and feet.
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Teaching Peace
As you mellow, the urge to compromise hits oftener, but latecomers continue to annoy me.
Emotions and Learning
The Brain Sciences have made dramatic progress in the last two decades.
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Exploring Fundamental Questions at School
It’s a sun drenched Wednesday morning and fifteen freshman and twelve sophomore high school students sit as one large group in a circle.
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Responsibility to the Other
I have been asked to contribute to the Journal which is now marking the first decade of its existence, and I am happy to do so because of my involvement in the work of the Foundations, which, of course, can be seen at so many levels as part of the world of education.
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Placing Krishnamurti in the Philosophy of Education
Scholarly research into the philosophy of education abounds with accounts of contributions of several educational and social leaders to the understanding and practice of education.
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Editorial
It all started with a feeling that the legacy that Krishnamurti had left us in the form of his vision of education was something precious that had to be conserved, explored and shared.
What is the significance of history in the education of the young?
Question: What is the significance of history in the education of the young?
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Review of “Magical Parent, Magical Child: The Art of Joyful Parenting”, Michael Mendizza and Chilton Pearce
Magical Parent, Magical Child, plays with many ways of getting its message across.
Review of “Social Implications of Schooling: Knowledge, Pedagogy and Consciousness”, Avijit Pathak
This book is a significant contribution to the growing literature on education, particularly school education, and it is written by an Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
The Nature of Mathematics – an Unfolding Story
Prologue The average teacher or for that matter researcher of mathematics rarely bothers herself with the philosophy or epistemology of mathematics.
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