The Teachings: Pushing the Envelope
Two things that are very important in the Krishnamurti movement are the ‘Sacred’ and the ‘Teachings’ (how to get to the sacred).
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After School, What?
The Post School Programme, located at the Bangalore Education Centre of KFI, is an attempt to extend these concerns of the Krishnamurti Schools to high school graduates and other young adults.
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Leaves from a Teacher’s Journal
Teachers are busy people. Their work demands intense engagement with students, other adults, their subject, ways of communicating it, and much else.
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Krishnamurti on the Timetable
At the time, Andy was on a collision course with staff and in danger of being asked to leave Brockwood.
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Brockwood Park School: Staff Retreat
Teachers of a school are colleagues in a special sense of the word.
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A New Initiative – The Centre for Teacher Learning
Krishnamurti, the quintessential teacher, offered deep insights and perspectives on the human condition and underlined the urgency of approaching the many problems of life with a new, awakened mind.
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Yoga in the Classroom
Class Six was a challenge to all of us who were teaching them: twenty-seven 10-year olds, all extremely energetic and scattered.
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Silent Looking: Exploring Perception with J. Krishnamurti
To discover anything you must look; and to look, your look must be silent.
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Teaching History: Learning to Look into the Mirror
In this article I will focus on teaching history in a way that is inspired by the Teachings of Krishnamurti.
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A Script for Self-Learning
Background of NachiketNachiket is one of the many educational centers of the Krishnamurti Foundation.
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Curriculum for an Inquiring Mind
In our ongoing engagement with the daily business of teaching and more generally with education, we come up against the question–what are we doing with our children?
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Physical Inquiry: The Body as Means of Learning (Part Two)
As teachers in Krishnamurti Schools, we are concerned with enabling self-discovery and awareness.
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Exploring the Potential of Physical Education as a Support for Learning (Part One)
Castellari’s reflections touch upon many of the ideas I myself have been working on.
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Towards a Philosophy of Physical Education
For some years now I have been interested in the potential of physical education (PE) to support inquiry and learning.
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What Makes a Teacher
The question is sometimes raised, why the Krishnamurti schools do not have greater purchase in the educational community and, with the exception of the schools of the Rural Education Programme at Rishi Valley, do not have wider applicability.
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Alienation from the Wild
After a decade of involvement in nature education with individuals and groups from widely differing socio-cultural milieus, we have noticed that a profound alienation from the natural and the wild has taken place, in all human societies, for various reasons and to varying degrees.
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Editorial
We live our lives (“of quiet desperation”, as Thoreau put it) in the light of opposites – body and soul, violence and non-violence, truth and falsehood, sacred and profane, this world and the next, and so on.
Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Students
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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Review of “Set of Primers on Mathematics”, Shailesh Shirali
Do you love mathematics? Are you looking for suitable material that you can use to inspire your student of mathematics?
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Review of “Curioser and Curioser”, Neeraja Raghavan
This is a charming fable written by a trained scientist and teacher, ‘for the child in everyone’ as the blurb says.
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Review of “Krishnamurti for the Young – A Series of Three Books”, Edited by Ahalya Chari
These are the first three in a series of books designed to help the young to understand and deal with the world within themselves…
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Reporting on the Middle School Child
The periodic task of writing end-of-term reports is like the visible ‘tip of an iceberg’ that comprises many layers and processes in school.
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Reporting on the Junior School Child
In the child’s initial years at school, parents and teachers together are responsible for creating an environment which is conducive for learning to take place.
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Reporting on the Kindergarten Child
A report for a child in the kindergarten is a recording of the teacher’s observation of the child within a sensible framework.
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Reporting On a Child at School
“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.
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Observing the Universe: The Classroom in the Sky
Astronomy is probably the oldest of the sciences. It developed independently in many cultures.
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River Talk from the School in the Forest
Cool water, spilling over black stone. I stand still, watching vapors rise from your skin.
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Healing Our Civilization’s Intellectual Schizophrenia
Krishnamurti’s teachings seem more deep existential therapy than systematic philosophy.
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The Paradox of Being Responsible, Yet Not Responsible: A Compilation of Student Responses
As teachers concerned about young people today, we composed some questions that we felt were crucial in helping us understand their processes of growing up.
Innocent Prejudice
Eleven pairs of bright black eyes stare at me from eleven attentive faces, their pencils hovering over the page.
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Building Bridges Between School and Village: Traditional Performing Arts
The role and importance of folk performing artsThe folk performing arts have been traditionally used as vehicles of communication.
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: Reflections on a Father-Son Dialogue
This is a book* for many of those modern persons who hover on the brink of religion, those who wish to have faith but are unable to, and who say “Lord, I disbelieve, help thou my belief.” In a fatherson dialogue recorded over a length of three hundred closely printed pages, the book exposes the basic questions involved in this perennial human predicament in its modern form.
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