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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Reaching out to Government Schools in Tamil Nadu
The School, KFI, Chennai has created a new methodology that seeks to build a link between knowledge and empowerment, to equip each student with the ability to think, to apply and to discover.
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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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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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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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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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Amaltash: Individualised learning in a vertical group
The Amaltash programme started as a pilot project to study the problems and possibilities of individualised and group learning in a mixed age group in the middle school.
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Meeting Life: A landscapes and life skills course
This article is a description of a Landscapes course offered in 2006 and 2007, from December/January to April/May, to a group of young adults.
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The “Sameness” Curriculum
We are aware of ourselves and act as individuals with distinct personalities.
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The Elegant Science of Life: Biology
Here is some recent, assorted news making headlines in the field of biology:
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On Mathematics, Nature, and the Nature of Learning
Have you ever taken a walk down a long winding road along the banks of a river, amidst strewn pebbles, clusters of wild grass, acorns and scattered chestnuts?
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Physical Education: An Integrated Approach
We see around us three kinds of attitudes related to the body.
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Health Education
What does health mean to young people? They are active and energetic and rarely lack in physical vitality.
A Gently Socratic Enquiry
A paramount objective of education is to help children develop their ability to think for themselves and to learn to use this ability in responsible ways.
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Children and Reading
Why do we want our children to read? I refer to the wide range of books in fiction and non-fiction, which are perused by children and young adults from ages six to eighteen.
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Igniting Minds: With Science on Wheels
Like the wandering minstrel of yore, Agastya International Foundation’s Mobile Laboratory (ML) trundles in and out of schools in villages of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
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Building a Cathedral: An Approach to Teaching Poetry
There is a parable of a passer by who encountered three workmen cutting stones on a vast building site.
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A Feeling for Beauty: Dance in Education
Long before a child sees that the world is made up of books and classrooms he is aware that he can do the most amazing things with his hands and feet.
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The Nature of Mathematics – an Unfolding Story
Prologue The average teacher or for that matter researcher of mathematics rarely bothers herself with the philosophy or epistemology of mathematics.
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Krishnamurti on the Timetable
At the time, Andy was on a collision course with staff and in danger of being asked to leave Brockwood.
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Yoga in the Classroom
Class Six was a challenge to all of us who were teaching them: twenty-seven 10-year olds, all extremely energetic and scattered.
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Teaching History: Learning to Look into the Mirror
In this article I will focus on teaching history in a way that is inspired by the Teachings of Krishnamurti.
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A Script for Self-Learning
Background of NachiketNachiket is one of the many educational centers of the Krishnamurti Foundation.
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Curriculum for an Inquiring Mind
In our ongoing engagement with the daily business of teaching and more generally with education, we come up against the question–what are we doing with our children?
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Physical Inquiry: The Body as Means of Learning (Part Two)
As teachers in Krishnamurti Schools, we are concerned with enabling self-discovery and awareness.
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Exploring the Potential of Physical Education as a Support for Learning (Part One)
Castellari’s reflections touch upon many of the ideas I myself have been working on.
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Towards a Philosophy of Physical Education
For some years now I have been interested in the potential of physical education (PE) to support inquiry and learning.
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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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Reporting on the Junior School Child
In the child’s initial years at school, parents and teachers together are responsible for creating an environment which is conducive for learning to take place.
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