For an Earth-Centred Curriculum (Based on deliberations at a Workshop on Bio-diversity)
(Based on deliberations at a Workshop on Bio-diversity)
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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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The Post-School Programme
The question asked most often by visitors to the Centre For Learning is, ‘…but how do your children manage in the Real World outside, when they leave this school?’ There was a time when this question would perplex me – isn’t CFL in the real world just as everything else?! But over the last few years, I have begun to think more about this issue, and I can see that there is a need to answer such a question in depth and with seriousness.
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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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Creating the Attention Classroom
As a teacher who has spent over ten years teaching senior school students in those tumultuous years when they are growing up, facing the pressures of a performance-dominated society, I have time and again returned to the question of the place of the larger vision of education – of this whole concern with the art of living correctly – in my class.
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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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A Treasure House of Stories
There is a Sufi story told of how a poor farmer had journeyed to Delhi to beg for some financial help from the great Sufi Saint Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia.
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Ecology for 16 year olds
Environmental studies have become increasingly integral to modern day curricula.
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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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Creativity in Grammar Classes
In a modern Biology class a teacher no longer draws and labels a hypothetical flower on the blackboard expecting the children to learn it by heart.
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And I thought I was teaching Chemistry!
How would a teacher respond when asked, ‘What do you teach when you teach science?’
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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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Travels from Schools
I vividly remember the first school trip in 1983 with a group of standard 9 students at The Valley School.
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On Culture Classes
Culture classes have become an integral part of the curriculum at most K schools, yet their scope and purpose remain obscure.
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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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Reflections on Teaching Mathematics
Those of us who love mathematics and teach it, see that it is intrinsically beautiful.
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Fostering Mathematical Intelligence
Mathematics, its teaching/learning has evoked wide discussion ever so often.
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Notes on the Teaching of Social Studies
I began teaching part of the prescribed ICSE syllabus for history and culture in Standard VIII in 1983.
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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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