Philosophy as the Contribution of the Humanities
The oldest kind of philosophy, metaphysics, has more often than not consisted of fantastic opinions about the nature of reality.
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Editorial – Issue 7
Is it possible for a human being to have a sense of goodness in daily life, a goodness that is not idealistic, not sentimental, but actual?
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Learning is astonishingly difficult
To look at a flower or a marvellous cloud, you must have a clear, unspotted eye, an eye that has lived and seen a thousand experiences and yet is free of all experience; it is only then that you can see.
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Review of “The Courage to Teach”, Parker J. Palmer
Teachers choose their vocation for a number of reasons: love of a subject, a desire to share one’s passion with others, care for young children, interest in understanding the human mind, or to have a say in shaping the next generation.
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Trekking in the Himalayas
It was May 1988. At around 8:00 p.m. on a humid, crowded platform of Dadar Railway Station in Mumbai, I was waiting with a bunch of excited, chattering boys and girls.
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Haiku: Art of Perception
At the outset, I would like to explore the meaning of the word ‘communion’, which Krishnamurti often used in his writing.
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Sample Modules for Media Literacy: Module 3: A Study of Advertisements
Objective: To help students analyse a set of advertisements and understand their responses to them.
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Sample Modules for Media Literacy: Module 2: Analyzing a Woman’s Magazine
Objective: a) To sensitise young readers, boys and girls, to the potent imagery in the magazine and become aware of its influences.
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Sample Modules for Media Literacy: Module 1: Television News
Objective: Creating a critical awareness of various aspects of television news.
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Understanding our Media Experiences: Towards a Media Literacy Curriculum
As education concerns itself with an understanding of the world and ourselves, it must necessarily also grapple with the sources of influence and representations of reality thatwe are constantly exposed to. With the invasion of the mass media, particularly, it has become a crucial function of education to help children pay attention to the influences they imbibe and the representations they internalize.
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Media, Society and Education: Perspectives and Issues for Our Times
We live in a media-dominated society. The urban dweller’s world view is increasingly shaped by the news-bites and entertainment offered by the electronic media (with a range of 60-odd television channels and a variety of home entertainment gadgets to choose from).
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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.