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.
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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The Teachings: Pushing the Envelope
Two things that are very important in the Krishnamurti movement are the ‘Sacred’ and the ‘Teachings’ (how to get to the sacred).
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After School, What?
The Post School Programme, located at the Bangalore Education Centre of KFI, is an attempt to extend these concerns of the Krishnamurti Schools to high school graduates and other young adults.
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Leaves from a Teacher’s Journal
Teachers are busy people. Their work demands intense engagement with students, other adults, their subject, ways of communicating it, and much else.
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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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Brockwood Park School: Staff Retreat
Teachers of a school are colleagues in a special sense of the word.
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A New Initiative – The Centre for Teacher Learning
Krishnamurti, the quintessential teacher, offered deep insights and perspectives on the human condition and underlined the urgency of approaching the many problems of life with a new, awakened mind.
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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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Silent Looking: Exploring Perception with J. Krishnamurti
To discover anything you must look; and to look, your look must be silent.
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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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What Makes a Teacher
The question is sometimes raised, why the Krishnamurti schools do not have greater purchase in the educational community and, with the exception of the schools of the Rural Education Programme at Rishi Valley, do not have wider applicability.
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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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Editorial
We live our lives (“of quiet desperation”, as Thoreau put it) in the light of opposites – body and soul, violence and non-violence, truth and falsehood, sacred and profane, this world and the next, and so on.
Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Students
This is a journal on education that is brought out annually. It is an anthology of writings by educators, teachers and thinkers exploring a new vision of education in its many dimensions—philosophy, psychology, classroom experience, curriculum, nature and environment, and contemporary issues. It lays special emphasis on J Krishnamurti’s principles of education.
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