Any Takers for the Open Library?
At Centre For Learning, we have an open library. Open, available, accessible, friendly and welcoming to the users.
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A Treasure House of Stories
There is a Sufi story told of how a poor farmer had journeyed to Delhi to beg for some financial help from the great Sufi Saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia.
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Teaching is Not Just a Profession
A few years ago I attended some major teacher conferences and came away with a deep sense of unease.
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Teaching is Not Just a Profession
Having been a professional in the manufacturing industry for some years, I have observed that a professional is liked by those who have gone beyond the profession and developed a deeper relationship with all around.
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A Journey into Education: An interview
Sreedhar (S): Rajesh, for over two decades, you have been associated with tlie schools Krishnamurti founded in India.
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The Middle Ground
This a reflection on the attempt we are making at Brockwood to put into practice the educational intentions of Krishnamurti.
Concept and Awareness: Two Approaches to Truth
One of the persistent and nagging concerns of the Krishnamurti schools seems to be that of ‘locating the place of academics in the total vision of education’ .
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Education and Indian Nationalism
The British Concept of IndiaThe spirit of nationalism was hovering in the Indian air when J.
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Live not by intellect alone
Live not by intellect alone; for that way leads to perversion, the mechanization of life.
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Review of “Prism: A Learning Journal”, Edited by Richard Laubly and Helen Schall
A New Journal Prism: A Learning journal is a publication of Prism Communication, a Paris-based language training association, edited by Richard Laubly and Helen Schall, 151, Rue du Fauborg- Poissonniere, 75009 Paris.
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Review of “Life’s Grandeur”, Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould is one of the most popular writers on science today.
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Review of “The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and What Schools Should Teach”, Howard Gardner
Have you recently talked with a three year old, and come away slightly dazed at the degree of sophistication in her conversation – the concepts she understands and applies so appropriately to each situation?
Media and Young Minds: The Role of Education
Living in a world filled with the by-products of human technological advances, one senses the tidal wave of globalization that sweeps across the planet, carrying with it hi-tech products, new lifestyles and a consumer culture to far corners of the globe.
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On Boredom and Sense-stimulation
Suppose you are sitting around at home one day feeling somewhat bored.
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The Rhythm of a Different Day
At the edge of the rainforest inWynad, Kerala, some children are sleeping on the floor of a large room.
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Understanding Taxonomy
Teaching and learning of classification in Life Science can be very wearisome and dull if taught in the conventional way, using Greek and Latin terms that are found easily in the textbooks.
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Ecology for 16 year olds
Environmental studies have become increasingly integral to modern day curricula.
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Neuropsychological Issues in a Classroom
We all agree that as educators our responsibility is not only to impart knowledge, but also to be concerned with the overall development of the child.
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Creativity in Grammar Classes
In a modern Biology class a teacher no longer draws and labels a hypothetical flower on the blackboard expecting the children to learn it by heart.
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And I thought I was teaching Chemistry!
How would a teacher respond when asked, ‘What do you teach when you teach science?’
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Art Education at School
Two distinct, but equally crucial challenges coalesced to inspire the creation of the Valley school Art Village.
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Tamarind Seeds and Little Children
All too often in our staff meetings, we have deliberated upon our concerns – how to help our children understand that there is more to playing a game than winning or losing, with the accompanying euphoria or disappointment.
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Inwoods: The Children’s Space
In the autumn of 1995 three families at BrockwoodPark School were discussing the possibility of providing some kindof alternative education for their children and started searching for a place where this could happen.
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A Learning Ground
For seven very inspiring enriching years, I have had the opportunity of living and teaching at Rajghat, on the banks of the Ganga.
Dancing with Shadows: Graduation Address, 1997
Welcome to the 1997 Oak Grove School Graduation Ceremonies.
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A Teacher’s Journey
As I reflect upon my plunge into teaching in a school more than a decade ago, I really marvel at how fast time has flown.
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Travels from Schools
I vividly remember the first school trip in 1983 with a group of standard 9 students at The Valley School.
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On Culture Classes
Culture classes have become an integral part of the curriculum at most K schools, yet their scope and purpose remain obscure.
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Learning Through Dialogue
Krishnamurti has emphasised the need for students and teachers to learn about themselves while they are teaching and learning about the world around them, through the planned curriculum and activities of the school.
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The Insight Curriculum
What is the relationship, if any, between the teachings of Krishnamurti, and the findings of contemporary research in educational psychology?
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Knowing and Being – The Two Aspects of Education
‘We teach what we know, but educate what we are’
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