Nature as Teacher: Extending the Learning Community
Environmental education is an ideal forum to put into practice some of the educational insights of Eleanor Duckworth.
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Inner Work: A Way to Create Emotional Well-being
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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Educating to be a Part of not Apart from the Environment
We are academicians-cum-practitioners, one from the environmentalsciences and the other from the socialsciences, coming together as teachers withthe aim of re-envisioning an approach toenvironmental studies.
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The Calendar of Nature: Connecting Children with Nature through the Observation of Trees
The natural world is changing so rapidly that entire landscapes are being unrecognizably altered within a few decades.
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On the Threshold of Touch
Behaviour exposes the content of your consciousness.- J KrishnamurtiAs a long time environmental educator I’ve been exploring imitation, song, touch and body-in-nature as channels of empathy between humans, and also between human and non-humans.
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Environmental Education in Our Schools
As it is the United Nations’ Year of Biodiversity, it seems an appropriate time to stand back and take stock of the way we teach environmental education in Krishnamurti Schools.
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Krishnamurti and Deep Ecology
Deep Ecology, a current philosophical movement initiated by the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess in 1972, is shaping the environmental debate by asking fundamental questions about who we are and what human progress means rather than searching merely for technological fixes.
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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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Is Environmental Education an Oxymoron?
For those calling themselves environmental educators, it is sobering to note that the only people who have lived sustainably in the Amazon rain forests, the desert Southwest, or anywhere else on earth could not read or write (which is not to say that they were uneducated).
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Alienation from the Wild
After a decade of involvement in nature education with individuals and groups from widely differing socio-cultural milieus, we have noticed that a profound alienation from the natural and the wild has taken place, in all human societies, for various reasons and to varying degrees.
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River Talk from the School in the Forest
Cool water, spilling over black stone. I stand still, watching vapors rise from your skin.
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On the Nature of a Walk
“Look, a hare is jumping out of that bush!” “Let’s sit and quietly watch the snake coming out of its hole.” “Please help me get off this rock, aunty! I can’t find the grips!” “Hey, there’s a bird fallen on the ground.
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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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Studies of Biodiversity on Campus
Biologists have identified India as one of the top twelve megadiversity countries of the world.
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Nature Schools
All across Scandinavia small children are running wild! From Lapland to Jutland, you will see flocks of youngsters chasing through meadows and woodland, with mud-spattered faces and small rucksacks on their backs.
A School in the Forest
Every year around 2000 people walk up the three kilometres of dirt road, in rain and sun, to visit the gardens at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary.
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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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The Language of Nature
To meet the challenge of the twenty-first century we need to buildeducation on the foundation of eco-literacy.
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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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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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Ecology for 16 year olds
Environmental studies have become increasingly integral to modern day curricula.
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Ecological Perception
In the days before scientific thinking took hold in the West the earth was seen as a vast living being worthy of deep respect and reverence.
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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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