To educate another, you must re-educate yourself, a strenuous task.This statement is, perhaps, widely understood by most teachers who have been in the classroom for more than a few years.
Teaching Academy: A Participant’s Perspective Read Post »
Krishnamurti suggested that, ‘Education can be transformed only by educating the educator, and not merely creating a new pattern, a new system of action.’ Around this challenge, a group of educators participated in a two-week intensive Teaching Academy in the summer of 2009, at Ojai, California.
Teaching Academy, Ojai 2009 Read Post »
When I joined Rishi Valley School a little over an year ago, I was introduced to the teachers’ resource cupboard, which had files overflowing with reading and reference material for the Social Studies curriculum for Class 6.
What Must Social Studies Teach? An Exploration for Class Six Read Post »
Science is basically an exploration of that which is not known, or put more flamboyantly, the unknown, in the material world.
The Art of Making Machines: A Science Classroom Read Post »
This article describes a new exploration at Oak Grove School, Ojai – Editors’Academic excellence is absolutely necessary, but a school includes much more than that…’ J KrishnamurtiOne of the great challenges of providing a Krishnamurti education within the context of an independent tuition-based school (especially here in America), is balancing accountability for academic excellence with all that is entailed in what he considered to be ‘much more than that’.
Exploring a New Dimension to Learning Read Post »
In the brief articles that follow, we re-examine and unravel the meanings of words commonly used in the field of education.DisciplineWe admire well regulated, ordered lives.
Re-examining Words in Education Read Post »
Everyone agrees that values should be part of a good education.
A Life Well-lived: Education and Values Read Post »
Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop which makes personal care cosmetics, was once asked admiringly what special materials her products were made from.
Writing Textbooks for Children Read Post »
Several years ago my son, then in Class Seven, came home disturbed about an incident in school.
Poorna: An Alternative, Inclusive School Read Post »
As a sports teacher the first thing that struck me, or should I say shocked me, was that sports was not a time that everyone looked forward to.
I am a 17-year-old adolescent male. I am sure this very statement gives you the heebie-jeebies! My parents and teachers are highly educated and have no qualms in sharing all the latest research on adolescents, plus their own home-grown wisdom about teenagers, with me.
Educating Romeo and His Teacher Read Post »
Most children experience a sharp dichotomy between home and school.
Learning in Kinship Read Post »
Discussions of deep philosophical issues may seem out of place in a journal dedicated to K-12 education, but actually philosophical viewpoints (and their assumptions) inform all daily perspectives and behaviors.
Science and Religion Read Post »
What is education about? In what general context does it find its meaning, its raison d’être?
Educating for the Art of Living Read Post »
This is the fourteenth issue of the Journal and what started as an in-house exchange between the various Krishnamurti schools has, over the years, slowly and quietly found a wider audience.
Questioner: Could you describe how you are aware that you are inattentive?
Learning about Oneself Read Post »
BeautyThe perception of beauty is an essential aspect of the teachings of J.
Exploring Krishnamurti’s Insights Read Post »
Envy is a curious emotion with a long and tragic history in human affairs.
Envy and the High Demands of Love Read Post »
Prefatory NoteSince the publication in July 2 2006 of the Journal of Krishnamurti Schools ‘dedicated to the teacher’, there has been an increasing, if varied, response to the necessary task of educating the educator.
The School of Life Read Post »
Holistic education is a philosophy of education based on the premise that each person finds identity, meaning, and purpose in life through connections to the community, to the natural world, and to spiritual values such as compassion and peace.(Miller, R.
The Philosophical Underpinnings of Holistic Education Read Post »
We have all had some great teachers. Or at least, if we have not been fortunate enough, we have heard of great teachers.
On Being an Effective Teacher Read Post »
Poor effectiveness and quality plague our school system.
Democracy in Education: An Exploration of Structure Read Post »
There are indeed many things that we consciously teach children, both at home and at school.
What are Children Learning from Us? Read Post »
As an English teacher I have found great joy in the exploration of meaningful writing with junior and middle school children.
Preparing the Ground for Meaningful Writing Read Post »
The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind Emily DickinsonEarly in my Literature course with students newly come into Class 11, I have given them these lines of poetry to consider: The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.
Reading Children: A Perspective from Poetry Read Post »
Exulting in an unexpected shower in the summer, running off to float paper boats in puddles after the rains, looking for delicious berries at a particular time of the year, watching little insects, picking wild flowers to make bouquets, finding shining smooth pebbles or shells, feeling the soft sand and the rushing water on the beach, climbing a giant tree, running up and down a hillside—the list can go on.
Walks: To Nurture the Natural Read Post »
To give knowledge which does not become an end in itself and to educate the mind to have a long vision, a wide comprehension of life, is not possible if education is based on authority.
Educating the Educator: Self-Inquiry for Parents and Teachers Read Post »
We have heard people say, that without ambition, we cannot do anything.
On Ambition: A Talk to Students Read Post »
The School, KFI, Chennai has created a new methodology that seeks to build a link between knowledge and empowerment, to equip each student with the ability to think, to apply and to discover.
Reaching out to Government Schools in Tamil Nadu Read Post »
Teachers often see research as involving distance and separation from their work.
Action Research: The Power of Action through Inquiry Read Post »
This article is an account of a pilot project on learning in a mixed age group environment in the middle school classes 5, 6 and 7, initiated at The School, KFI, in Chennai in the year 2006-2007.
A Structural Answer to a Cultural Question: Mixed Age Group in the Middle School Read Post »
