What is Academic Rigour?
‘Academics’ is a top priority in all educational institutions, for obvious reasons.
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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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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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Review of “Magical Parent, Magical Child: The Art of Joyful Parenting”, Michael Mendizza and Chilton Pearce
Magical Parent, Magical Child, plays with many ways of getting its message across.
Review of “Social Implications of Schooling: Knowledge, Pedagogy and Consciousness”, Avijit Pathak
This book is a significant contribution to the growing literature on education, particularly school education, and it is written by an Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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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Review of “Set of Primers on Mathematics”, Shailesh Shirali
Do you love mathematics? Are you looking for suitable material that you can use to inspire your student of mathematics?
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Review of “Curioser and Curioser”, Neeraja Raghavan
This is a charming fable written by a trained scientist and teacher, ‘for the child in everyone’ as the blurb says.
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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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The Paradox of Being Responsible, Yet Not Responsible: A Compilation of Student Responses
As teachers concerned about young people today, we composed some questions that we felt were crucial in helping us understand their processes of growing up.
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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On Nurtuting the Motivation to Learn: Outcome of a Group Discussion
The question has often been asked of Krishnamurti schools as to how, in the absence of competition, reward and punishment, they educate students and help them to be proficient in academic learning.
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Creativity and Insight
For this year’s annual conference for teachers of Krishnamurti Schools— held at Rajghat Besant School, Varanasi —the theme chosen was Creativity and Insight.
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Points of View: Computers in School Education
The information revolution is sweeping the world. Computer networks capable of storing, processing and transmitting vast amounts of data are webbing their way into the lives of people the world over.
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From Brockwood Park School
Brockwood Park School in England, founded by Krishnamurti in 1969, is an international residential school that brings together around 60 students from around 20 countries, aged between 14 and 20.
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Introducing Books by Krishnamurti on life and learning
UNDERSTANDING OURSELVES KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION TRUST, BROCKWOOD PARK, BRAMDEAN, HAMPSHIRE SO24 OLQ, ENGLAND, 1999, £ 9 – 14 US $.
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