Reporting on the Kindergarten Child
A report for a child in the kindergarten is a recording of the teacher’s observation of the child within a sensible framework.
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Reporting On a Child at School
“The purpose, the aim and drive of these schools, is to equip the child with the most excellent technological proficiency so that the student may function with clarity and efficiency in the modern world.
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Observing the Universe: The Classroom in the Sky
Astronomy is probably the oldest of the sciences. It developed independently in many cultures.
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A New Way of Thinking for Children: New Approaches to the Curriculum
In an age where there is constant manipulation of the senses, of decisions regarding lifestyle taking place, the young person is under constant threat to conform or else fall out.
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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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Learning About the Beginnings of Life: Reflections of New Writings
The two-volume text entitled ‘Prehistory for Indian Schools’² relates the story of the origins of man as he came down from the trees, from his huntergatherer days down to his role as a shepherd and, finally, giving an account of the beginnings of agriculture which in turn helped man to move from a simple to a complex society.
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Recreating the Sangam and Pallava Ages: Reflections on New Writings
When I look back at my history lessons in school, I am always intrigued by my own transformation from an utterly indifferent history student to an adult with a deep conviction that history is (perhaps) the most interesting and important subject ever.
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Breaking New Ground: Sourcing Materials for the History Classroom
The teaching and learning of history has been and will, by its very nature, be an area of much debate and controversy.
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Reporting on the Senior School Student
“Is this a report meeting that I see before me?”
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Origami and Mathematics (And my Experience with Class Nine)
I got involved in Origami a couple of years back when I came across a marvelous model of a hyperbolic parabola.
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At School with Design: Introducing Design Studies
As parents of children at the school, three of us (Aarti Kawlra, Deepa Kamath and Kalpana Shah Korwar) have been associated with different projects and activities at The School, KFI—in the preparation of a class newspaper, in teaching a session on the role of cotton and weaving in the Industrial Revolution, in the designing of the wash area outside the dining hall.
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The Challenge of Teaching Psychology
As teachers in the K schools we are more than usually concerned with human nature and human consciousness, the very stuff of academic psychology.
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Making School Trips Meaningful
Just a few days before our last school trip, a friend of ours, an anthropology scholar, visited us at school.
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The Role of Study Trips in Education
The primary objective and intent of our schools is to awaken intelligence in the educator and the student.
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Understanding Another Way of Learning: Personal Observations of a Junior School Classroom
I must begin by setting the scene. I moved to Chennai, India just under eighteen months ago from the United Kingdom, where I have spent most of my life.
Energy: A Multidisciplinary School Project
On the Theme and Process of the Project ‘Energy’—the term has many meanings and each of these impacts our lives in direct ways.
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Teaching the History of The Indian National Movement
This article tries to point out some of the difficulties faced by a teacher teaching the history of the Indian National Movement to a class of senior students within the constraints of a certain received version of it assumed and propagated by the syllabus and by standard textbooks.
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Why Study History?
My study of history would be incomplete if, after having surveyed the process of history, I failed to ask myself what history is… [Toynbee]
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The Student as Historian: The Possibilities of a Study Visit to a Historical Site
This article describes an attempt to place the student at the centre of the process of learning history.
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Issues in the Teaching of History: Lessons from Krishnamurti
(In this article—based on an introductory talk for a workshop on the teaching of the Humanities held at Rishi Valley School— Radhika Herzberger attempts to elucidate the philosophical positions of Krishnamurti that have a direct bearing on how we construe our past, how we might engage with current issues in history teaching, and how we might respond to the challenge of living a life amidst the currents of social as well as inner divisiveness.
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Relating with the Earth: An Exploration of the Possibilities in Teaching Geography
In this article I would like to explore the possible ways in which the potentialinherent in geography as a subject can be unfolded, for the teacher and the student.
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A Science Curriculum in the Making
When five science teachers get together to discuss what science teaching (or learning) should be across the school, it makes for a rambling, shapeless and extended discussion over many months.
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Erik Erikson’s Theory of Development: A Teacher’s Observations
Erik Erikson was a psychologist who did most of his work in the post-Freudian era, in the 1930s to the 1950s.
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For all you Maths Teachers out There!: On the Mathematics Teachers’ Conference at Rishi Valley
I am sure all you mathematics teachers out there have had the following experience.
Stepping into Kindergarten
I undertook training in Kindergarten education at the Children’s Garden School in Chennai in 1978.
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Teaching and Learning Hindi as a ‘Second’ Language: Exploring a new Terrain
A few years ago I made a transition from teaching French as a foreign language to adults to making materials for teaching Hindi as a second language to young school goers in South India.
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The Human Perspective in Teaching Geography
Images of GeographyGeography – the very name conjures up images of misty mountains, bubbling brooks, rapidly flowing rills, deep gorges, endless undulating plains, and majestic rivers, so slow-flowing that they almost seem indolent, yet with a hidden power that man has sought to harness for aeons.
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A Course in Contemporary Art
Last year Brockwood Park School initiated a new art class to explore the expressions of Western contemporary art, focusing on the phenomenon of ‘Conceptual Art’.
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The Kindergarten Teacher
The work of the Kindergarten teacher involves many dimensions of understanding.
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Learning in Mixed Age Groups: How We Made the Transition
A school, like any other institution, is a complex amalgam of intentions, processes, practices and of course, people.
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Innovations in Education: Vidyodaya – an attempt to walk a different path
‘You are supposed to be teachers and you don’t send your children to school?!’ The local community was aghast.
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From Brockwood Park and Yewfield: A new course on environmental philosophy and ecological practice
Find your place on earth, dig in, and take your responsibilities from there.