A Practice of Mindfulness Within Childhood Education
The importance of self-knowledge is mentioned in many school mission statements, and this is not surprising.
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The World ‘Between the Lines’: What does Reading Comprehension Really Mean?
For some time now, I have been fascinated by what children are thinking about as they read.
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A Time to Reckon: Theme Meetings at School
I am the mother all right, but I worry when my child assumes that I am the parent!’ As parents and teachers we had come together at the annual theme meeting at The School (KFI) to discuss our role in a child’s life and a child’s role in ours.
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Big Brother isn’t Watching You – and is not too sure what he is seeing
Recently, on a blackboard in a very public corridor used by students for good-natured but generally anonymous graffiti, something like the following had been neatly printed: SMILE WHEN YOU USE COMPUTERS IN THE COMPS LAB – YOU’RE UNDER CCTV.
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Awakening Empathy in Early Childhood
Young children experience conflict every day, generated by differences in age, size, physical abilities, language, race, ethnicity and culture, religion, family structure, socioeconomic class and gender: ‘No girls allowed!’Children wish to be treated fairly and they have problems with perceivedunfairness.
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From the Mind’s Attic
It is as though you have an eye That sees all forms But does not see itself.
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The Calendar of Nature: Connecting Children with Nature through the Observation of Trees
The natural world is changing so rapidly that entire landscapes are being unrecognizably altered within a few decades.
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Child as a Kite
We face many dilemmas in life. Whether to treat a child as a child or to consider the child as a future adult is among the most contentious issues that confront many of us.
Self and Society: An Approach to Teaching Social Studies
We are talking about … schools cultivating in the young that most ‘subversive’ intellectual instrument—the anthropological perspective.
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Close Encounters of a Natural Kind: Nature-based Curriculum from Intent to Action
In my childhood, nature had an amorphous, seraphic form.
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Mushtifund School, Goa: The Story of How a Mainstream Traditional School Experimented with Change
The purpose of writing this article is not to project any story of achievement.
Singular and Plural: Understanding the Individual and the Group
I am going to begin with a simple grammar lesson in English, which is approximately at the level of class 2, although we might come upon it at earlier or later stages of our education.
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Our Inner Landscape
Over the centuries, the theories we have devised have gradually changed our image of ourselves, and in so doing they have subtly altered the contents of consciousness.
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Children’s Fears
Suppose you were to ask a young child, 13 years old, to write down her answer to the question: what are you afraid of?
Fear: An Introduction to the Section
When the editors’ team met in July 2010 to discuss the content of the new edition the discussion turned to the number of suicides by young people reported daily in newspapers.
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The Art of Parenting
The razzle-dazzle of technology and media has captured the hearts and minds of teenagers, far outpacing parents’ and teachers’ ability to hold the attention of youth.
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Oak Grove School: The Growth of a Learning Centre
Excerpts from a talk given at the International Symposium on ‘Being Alive to Responsible Citizenship: J.
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Glimpses of the Children’s Programme at the Study Centre, Bangalore
The Study Centre at Bangalore has been conducting programs for the school children of The Valley School since 1993.
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Editorial
True to its eclectic character, this fifteenth issue of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools has a collection of articles on diverse subjects and topics.
The Living Past
The social sciences are ideally suited to a learning that draws on immediate and surrounding worlds.
What Must Social Studies Teach? An Exploration for Class Six
When I joined Rishi Valley School a little over an year ago, I was introduced to the teachers’ resource cupboard, which had files overflowing with reading and reference material for the Social Studies curriculum for Class 6.
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Writing Textbooks for Children
Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop which makes personal care cosmetics, was once asked admiringly what special materials her products were made from.
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Poorna: An Alternative, Inclusive School
Several years ago my son, then in Class Seven, came home disturbed about an incident in school.
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Learning in Kinship
Most children experience a sharp dichotomy between home and school.
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What are Children Learning from Us?
There are indeed many things that we consciously teach children, both at home and at school.
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Preparing the Ground for Meaningful Writing
As an English teacher I have found great joy in the exploration of meaningful writing with junior and middle school children.
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Reading Children: A Perspective from Poetry
The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind Emily DickinsonEarly in my Literature course with students newly come into Class 11, I have given them these lines of poetry to consider: The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
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Walks: To Nurture the Natural
Exulting in an unexpected shower in the summer, running off to float paper boats in puddles after the rains, looking for delicious berries at a particular time of the year, watching little insects, picking wild flowers to make bouquets, finding shining smooth pebbles or shells, feeling the soft sand and the rushing water on the beach, climbing a giant tree, running up and down a hillside—the list can go on.
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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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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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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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