Editorial
Here we are with the sixteenth issue of the Journal.
Teachers’ Fears: Some Scenarios
Teachers are human beings too. And being human, they share in the fears that human beings live with.
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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’.
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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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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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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Cities and Cultures: New Approaches to the Curriculum
Rethinking the Social Studies Curriculum New ventures often begin with discontent.
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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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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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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.
From Local Studies Towards a Global Outlook – A New Geography for 12-year-Olds
Geography began with the realization that there was another side to the mountain and other people across the sea.
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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 Being a House Parent
A year after I joined the Rishi Valley School I was asked to be a ‘house parent’ to 16 boys of ages 10 to 13.
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