Education
Question: What kind of education should my child have, in order to face this chaotic world?
Teaching at University: Challenges and Concerns
Is authentic learning possible in the heady atmosphere of an elite university, or is the race for degrees and prestigious jobs too overwhelming?
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From the Mind’s Attic
It is as though you have an eye That sees all forms But does not see itself.
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An Experiment in Self-Observation
One of the vexing questions in Krishnamurti’s teachings is how to become aware of the contents of our consciousness.
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Space and Spirit
Let me start with some basic questions that we need to ask ourselves: Why do most of our modern living and work environments make us exhausted and dispirited?
Learning in Friendship and Leisure
This is a description of a special month-long coming together of a few students and staff from Brockwood Park, UK, in India.
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Child as a Kite
We face many dilemmas in life. Whether to treat a child as a child or to consider the child as a future adult is among the most contentious issues that confront many of us.
On Retreats
From ancient times to the present, seekers of truth have felt the call to dwell in mountain silences, to live in the hush and shadows of the forests or even to go to the deserts where nature is shorn of all excess, to get away from the throng and maddening crowd, and discover an invincible peace.
Close Encounters of a Natural Kind: Nature-based Curriculum from Intent to Action
In my childhood, nature had an amorphous, seraphic form.
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Mushtifund School, Goa: The Story of How a Mainstream Traditional School Experimented with Change
The purpose of writing this article is not to project any story of achievement.
Project-based Learning
Last November, Oak Grove School welcomed to its beautiful campus both current and prospective families for an All School Showcase and Open House.
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Singular and Plural: Understanding the Individual and the Group
I am going to begin with a simple grammar lesson in English, which is approximately at the level of class 2, although we might come upon it at earlier or later stages of our education.
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An Invitation to Look Inward
Krishnamurti felt quite strongly that one of the major functions of education is to nurture the capacity to look inward.
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Editorial
Here we are with the sixteenth issue of the Journal. Run your eye over the titles on the contents page and you will get an impression that themes based on children, teaching and learning—core concerns in any journal of education—are surrounded by themes such as nature, space, spirit, touch, retreat and looking inward. How are these connected with education? That there is a vital link between all these themes and the educational enterprise is what I wish to show.
Our Inner Landscape
Over the centuries, the theories we have devised have gradually changed our image of ourselves, and in so doing they have subtly altered the contents of consciousness.
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Teachers’ Fears: Some Scenarios
Teachers are human beings too. And being human, they share in the fears that human beings live with.
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Being and Becoming: Some Thoughts on Adolescence and Fear
Adolescence is marked in every culture by what anthropologists have called ‘rites of passage’ involving the social recognition of entry into puberty, usually through a formal ritual or ceremony.
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Children’s Fears
Suppose you were to ask a young child, 13 years old, to write down her answer to the question: what are you afraid of?
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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Anxiety, Openness and Freedom
Do animals feel fear? On the face of it, this seems to be an absurd question, for of course, animals do feel fear.
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The Art of Parenting
The razzle-dazzle of technology and media has captured the hearts and minds of teenagers, far outpacing parents’ and teachers’ ability to hold the attention of youth.
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Partial and Total Insight: Constructivism and Krishnamurti’s Pedagogy
‘What I am trying to say is that insight is never partial; I am talking of total, not partial, insight … An artist can have a partial insight.
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Oak Grove School: The Growth of a Learning Centre
Excerpts from a talk given at the International Symposium on ‘Being Alive to Responsible Citizenship: J.
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Glimpses of the Children’s Programme at the Study Centre, Bangalore
The Study Centre at Bangalore has been conducting programs for the school children of The Valley School since 1993.
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Astronomy in School
Outdoor activities form an integral part of school education.
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Learning to be a Teacher of History: Excerpts from the Journal of a Beginner
I joined Rajghat Besant School, Varanasi, in July 2009 as a resource person to teach Class XII students.
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A Love of Theatre: Interview with Gerard Bayle
The following is an interview with Gerard Bayle, a professional theatre actor who has been working with students in the UK and India for many years.
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Can One Learn the Art of Living from Nature?
‘Is man a part of nature, or apart from nature?’ It seems paradoxical to ask such a question.
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Editorial
True to its eclectic character, this fifteenth issue of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools has a collection of articles on diverse subjects and topics.
Goodness cannot flower in the field of fear
In all our schools the educator and those responsible for the students, whether in the classroom, on the playing field or in their rooms, have the responsibility to see that fear in any form does not arise.
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What Did You Ask at School Today?
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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