Action Research: The Power of Action through Inquiry
Teachers often see research as involving distance and separation from their work.
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A Structural Answer to a Cultural Question: Mixed Age Group in the Middle School
This article is an account of a pilot project on learning in a mixed age group environment in the middle school classes 5, 6 and 7, initiated at The School, KFI, in Chennai in the year 2006-2007.
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Fading Boundaries: Death of the School, the Teacher and the Taught
‘May we please go outside?’ a student pleads, batting eyelids as I walk into a noisy room of fifteen-year-olds.
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Preparing Students for Examinations And Teaching a Subject Well
There is an implicit assumption widely shared by teachers in the Krishnamurti schools that preparing students to face examinations shifts focus away from learning a subject.
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Rules of Living
It is almost received wisdom in alternative schools and other similar communities that rules are antigrowth; they restrict creativity and stifle the true cooperative spirit.
The Evolution of the Sanctuary Schools at Kaigal
It is nine in the morning at Kalligutta, a remote tribal settlement just outside the Kaundinya Wildlife Sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh.
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Drawing Students into Environmental Education
Teaching environmental education has been part of our curriculum at the Rishi Valley School well before the subject was made mandatory for all students as per the orders of the Supreme Court.
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An Approach to Environmental Education: Lessons from Krishnamurti
This article is based on my experience of teaching Environmental Education for Classes 9 and 10 for the past ten years.
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Understanding the Story of Our Lives: The Limitations of the Tools of Science
The story of life is lived by us. It is experienced first hand from day to day.
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Thinking about Art
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
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The Philosophy of Vocational Education
The U.S. has its own history and tradition of vocational education.
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Culture in One’s Life
As Indians, we honestly believe that culture is in our blood and that this gives us an edge over other nationalities.
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Yet Another Confession of a Science Teacher
I am sure all of us have had occasions when we have felt a sense of dissatisfaction; days when we wonder why we are doing what we are doing, days when we wonder whether it is any use at all, whether teachers have anything to do with the learning of the child.
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Aesthetics and the Sense of Wonder in the Teaching of Science and Mathematics
In the silence of deep night and in the quiet still morning when the sun is touching the hills, there is a great mystery.
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The Scientific Spirit and the Quest for Wisdom
Science and Society Though modern science is of relatively recent origin in human history, it has made very rapid progress and transformed outwardly the manner of our living.
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Editorial
The world over, we lament the state of education. We might observe directly the plight of a generation of young people weighed down by the burden of seemingly meaningless academic curricula and indifferent teaching practices, alongside spiralling aspirations for securing the ‘good life’.
Teachers or educators are human beings
Teachers or educators are human beings. Their function is to help the student to learn not only this or that subject, but to understand the whole activity of learning; not only to gather information about various subjects, but primarily to be complete human beings.
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