Innovations in Education – EKLAVYA: A Report
The author has known Eklavya for many years through his parents and teachers, and through Eklavya’s children’s magazine ‘Chakmak’.
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As the Mystery Unfolds
Working with children on a project has been a most rewarding experience.
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Science and Insight
The greatest challenge facing a science teacher (I have been one for more than a decade now) is this whole matter of the student’s intuition.
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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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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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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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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 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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Review of “Classic Myths to Read Aloud”, William F. Russel
Good storytellers can demand your attention by showing you new ways of looking at an old story.
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School and Community – The Story of Satellite Schools
This is a journal on education that is brought out annually. It is an anthology of writings by educators, teachers and thinkers exploring a new vision of education in its many dimensions—philosophy, psychology, classroom experience, curriculum, nature and environment, and contemporary issues. It lays special emphasis on J Krishnamurti’s principles of education.
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A Tree Through the Year
The School at Madras is located in a very quiet, verdant part of the city in the grounds of the Theosophical Society.
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An Experiential Approach to Language Learning
The language experience approach is a very effective method for getting students in the beginning grades to read and write meaningfully.
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‘What Games Do You Play?’
The setting for this paper is RishiValley School, a co-educational school with about 350 children between the ages of 8 and 18.
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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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Skotmos in School
We recognize the growing complexity of the challenges facing schools today and we seek answers in educational reform and innovation.